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4 - i - '" '"'- 4. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF SOUTHPORT AND BRUNSWICK 'COUNTY. VOL 2. NO. 34. SOUTHPORT, II. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1891. PRICE FIVE CEITS: iALHKiirS Hl'IKiET. -::- K ()KUi:sl()M)i:.NTS VIKWS' S IAM:(i AFFAIRS. ., ..tut Vui1 l"nlfrlt K. i). llr tif"li' CuUttuUlr Alii. Hiirf Ma Mr-tlnr. . . luUvnt, N. '., October 13. Will Ual- ii' 1- chosen.? the place for the ,ittin of 'the Haptist State Female Tni verity, that inhibitions educational j,r'j."-t'' Some arsons express a be - j.,.-f it will never materialize. The ro!i)!!)itte- will report it fully to the ini- Convention of the denomination. The big coljxoratioii!?' like the little ' t,tn-i! gfl nt" p'aces, and the K;.,!)! nl V Danville is no exception. i has had Id reIuce force, run its shops on short tune, etc. t is part owner of the. union depot here, and Kan thus far only been able to pay up its bill as far a last May. It has Veil paving money to meet its interest. It is sal I that work on the depot, tms peii'led for a few days, will be resumed this week, intimation leing received thai the money due will le paid. The Exposition has grown wonder-' fully, ami is now meritorious some thing to be visited and studied. The exhibits cover a wide range, but all are distinctively Southern. As has been said it is not an official exposi tion, but a co-operative show. The. mo;. oj Raleigh are not slow to ex- jtress their disappointment at the fail ure of jK-opie to attend it in great numbers. They expected thousands daily from the very first, but the peo nu wisely remained away until it is mature. Now they can come, it is ready. North Carolina does itselt much credit, as will readily bit seen. Virginia makes a lino display. (Jeorgia does well. .Some people have said f very harsh' things iibout John T. -Patrick. th; manager. lie is certainly I not popular,, but In; is a wonderful -t worker, a living curiosity. He takes things in an easy fashion and says he knows ih people will como and that tiny will find a complete exposition. The people who come are certainly pleased. - The orphans in North Cifrohna in institutions now number Over 100 white a ltd SO colored-.- At the ( )x ford Asylum, tin; pioneer, there are '2(H). The Odd 'Fellows will now have their .orphanage at (Joldsboro. The meeting this week of the execu tive committee of the democratic party of this State is an important one. Chairman Smith Kaid to-day' that the meeting was called as a sort of con sultation, lie had no idea what matters would be brought up for discussion. Your correspondent could guess, and perhaps hit near the mark, that all this .Alliance business and third party muddle would form the bulk of the , t tie talk, r or the third party specter g looms up quite large, say what you will. While many say the early "rais ing of this ghost" will lead to a failure of many plans, others say the third party idea is too deeply rooted to be lightly dispelled. At all events the Alliance men here are being in scores 01 ways urged by the Western promo ters of this party to stand by it, and to I ignore the democratic and republican j parties, the Alliance extremist alleging 1 that the latter parties (which they always term the old parties) have sys tematically attempted to make the Alliance odious. It really appears that the Xorth Carolina cotton crop is quite much of a failure. It is put down to something like 70 per cent, of an average; but 50 ler cent in your correspondent's opinion, is nearer the mark. The quality of the lint is above the average, forborne reason. This seasons failure of the crop will be an object lesson to Sll1lli fit l.-ict if !.. -M. . - I . 1 nus-ij . ut mv; SilOI U SlgllteU farmers who' plant cotton even though it causes a money loss Wry nearly ;i 10,0t0 has to date been paid out to the people whu made claim for the refunded direct tax. All has been done rapidly and carefully. No mistake: have been made. A numbei of Governors have written tJov. Holt, to -secure information, first as to how the business was attended to, and second how the special force which did the work was paid It is the most difficult thing to get -together a large number of persons of one organization in North Carolina., , m meeting of the Alliance here organ of that order was a sraalLaffair. Mighty few came from a greater dis . tancethaa. fifteen miles. Peffer didn't : come. Ho made no apology and fooled everybody. He was m Missouri, it turns out: and on the verv davhe had j promised to be here lie spoke to a ! miserable little crowd of 130 people, j Peffer has mighty few friends outside the Alliance and some people would like to swap him off for Ingalls, -mean as they think the latter is. The people of the State have every reason to feel a pride in the Agricul tural and Mechanical College. In the judgment of men who have seen many such institutions it may be said that the one. Iocatctl here is admirable. It is young, but is making a record. It has 03 students, but ought to have twice the number. " i Murder will out, and Henry Jones, a negro just captured in. Florida, adds one more proof to the assertion. In July of last year he aasassinated R. E. (Jill, a good citizen and farmer of Franklin county, lie has been cap tu red and by the end of the week will be in jail at Louisburg. ! The colored people declare that their department at the Exposition 'shall do their race credit. It will be opened on Thursday. NORTH CAROLINA. N'hwh Clljifl l'roin 'uliiHblc KscIiutiKfii I'roiii the OIil North State. D. A. McDougald, charged with the murder of his uncle, Simeon Conly' has been granted a change of venue from Hobeson county to Cumberland county. The case is set for Novem ber 10th The saloons pay the city an annual revenue in license tax of $14,500. 'About this time next year," as the almanac would say, look ' out for an other bond election to fill tip that hole. ( 'nirl"t; ex it looks like the; County Commis sioners are going to vote the town dry on their "own hook." It were better, perhaps that. these revolutions come direct from the people, and not, through their accredited servants. ( 'liiirlnlle ),miocril. A Carolina Central freight train was moving out west from tbo passen ger station Monday morning-.when a truck became deranged and five cars were "thrown from the track. Two of .them rolled down the embankment just west of the Tryon street tunnel. A colored tram hand had a leg bro iVA.Meiklrnhurii ''inns. The value of the cotton crop of Hobesor county, it is thought, will bring $000,000, and this amount will not bo sufficient to pay for the bacon, flour, corn and fertilizers imported. The balance is against us, and while this state of things continues money will always be scarce. Make your own supplies and keep this large amount of money at home and we will hear le'ss of the sub-treasuries, land loans and other impracticable plans to make people prosperous. 1'anner and Scottish Chief. The town of Tillery has, we learn, been sold to the Carolina Lumber company for $40,000. This town was laid off by Mr. J. R. Tillery on his land wjien the Scotland Neck railroad was built and lie had never sold any lots, although he had plenty of appli cations to buy, but would always put up houses for anyone who desired to live and do business there. The Car. olina Lumber Company has for some time had a large lumber plant there and now own the whole town. They also, we hear, purchased Mr. Tillery 's farm adjoining the town. Roanoke United States Deputy Marshal J. F. Dobsonwent. to Fremont Thursday and arrested two young white boys, Hillary Radford and Geo. F. I Jerry on the charge of using cancelled stamps on letters for transmission through the mail. They were brought to the city that evening where they had a hearing before Commissioner Cogdell. The evidence being not sufficient against the smaller boy, lJerry, lie w as duly discharged but Radford was placed under a $200 bond for his ap pearance before the C S. Court at Wilmington in November. --Eli Sutton, white, who at the last term of court was sentenced to twelve mouths in the county jail for the accidental killing with a bi ick of M r. John Parks, of this county, about a year ago, made his escape Friday morning while the other prisoners were being given their breakfast by the Sheriff s little boy in the absence ot his father who was at the time a; Rajeigh, he having, gone .there to; conveyers. Rachel Keen,, of Gfantbara's township : to the Centrab Hospital. We learn that Sheriff Grant has offered a reward of $100 for the prisoners apprehension. Gohlln,r Ifttidliqht. WASHINGTON NEWS. ! . LNITI'I) oir:xix; of tiik STATI-S .SUPItK3IK COUItT A I'ull ami Ii:t-rrtlt)s !-U-t An Alli ance anlllat- For th Inter-State Com mixtion S-er-tary Foster a a Keforuifr, Ktc, Etc. Washington-, I). C, Oct. 12, 1S01 The United States Supreme Court opened its October term to-day with the usual dignified formalities which never fail to make a deep impression upon the ininds of all visitors, no mat ter how often they may have witnessed the same grand simplicity, if such a term be allowable. There was con siderable disappointment because the absence of Chief Justice Fuller, who is at the bedside of a sick daughter in Chicago, and of Justice Gray, who is just convalescing from an attack of typhoid fever, made necessary the postponement for a time of a number of cases considered to be of too much importance to be decided by anything less than a full bench. Among these cases are what ris known as the Say ward case, which involves several of the questions in dispute between Great Britain,, and the United States as to the rights of the latter in Behring Sea; the case involving the validity of the McKinley tariff act, and that to deter mine the constitutionals of the act shutting the lotteries out of tire mails. The session starts out with a larger number of cases, lipou the docket than the Court has ever lefore had, and although the act creating the new Cir cuit or Appelate Court was intended to relieve the Supreme Court other legislation enacted at the same session will add much more to its labors than the new couit can possibly relieve it of. The Indian depredation cases re ferred to the Court of Claims, of which mere are something iikc 1j,uu(i, are appealable to the Supreme Court. So also are cases from the recently estab lished Land Claims Court." .-These cases will not increase the docket of the Supreme Court at thfs term, but by next year this time it is predicted that it will be almost swamped with them, it is evident that something has got to be done in the near future to relieve the Supreme Court, or it will take the greater portion of an or dinary life-time to get a decision on a case not important enough to be ad vanced on the docket. The movement to secure the vacancy on the Inter-State Commerce Com mission made bv the death of W. L. Bragg for an Alliance man, has at last crystallized, and the name of Mr. D. P. Dewean. of-South' Carolina, has been presented to the President, endorsed by President Polk of the National Farmers' Alliance, and the State alli ance of Georgia, West Virginia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and Michi gan, and it is said that more endorse inents are to come from other State alliances. Ex-Representative Clem ents, of Georgia, who lost his seat in Congress because of his opposition to the principles advocated by the Al liance, had been the supposed favorite of Mr. Harrison up to the advent of an Alliance candidate. The appoint ment of (Mr. Clements would, it is said be regarded by the Alliance as a direct and intentional affront to that organi zation. Many people believe that if no other candidate is put forward by the Alliance, and Mr. Dewean receives the endorsement of the State alliances that his friends expect him to get, that he will secure the prize. It is regard ed by many as only justice that the Farmers' Alliance should have a , rep resentative on the board of Commis sioners. The next thing Secretary Foster knows he will have acquired the fame of a real, genuine reformer. He told some New York politicians, members of his partv, who told him he had better go slow in making changes in the New York - Custom house that would affect, the party workers, that 'efficient service at -the Custom House is the best -political move that any party can inaugurate, and I believe that the merchants, irrejective of partisan considerations, will agree with me'. Now, Mr. Foster has only to act up to his talk to make a great reputation among those who have business relations with the New York Custom House. Mr. Harrison has refused lo issue an order allowing Government em- ployeswhose regular leave of absence has all been used up, to go home to vote without loss of pay. He could not have issued such aa order without violating the law. but ab .he same he 1 was asked to do it. . ThVime0-Vc Bbiac tore sume hi ofucial auties Las now been extended, by Madame Humor until after the fall elections, although it is j difficult to discover how there can j possibly hit any connection between j the two tilings. Owing to the State campaign, poli ticians are rather scarce in Washing ton these days, but the presence of fiva hundred of the most distinguished Methodists in the world, who are m attendance upon the Ecumenical con ference of that church, new in session here, more than reconciles our people to the absence of the politicians. The conference has been a great success, and every thing has icy far passed off smoothly, although the refusal of some of the hotels to accomodate the colored brethren for a time threatened to make trouble, but quarters were found for them elsewhere. WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. A Steady I'rogresH of the AVork in the Various Department. Pennsylvania's? Exposition building will cost $75,000. There will be a bank on the exposi tion grounds, and also safety deposit vaults. The Florida Horticultural Society has asked for three acres in which to show an orange grove and make a fruit display. South Dakota is now engaged in raising $80,000 for its representation at the Exposition. It proposes to erect a building 144 feet fquaie. Mrs. Potter Palmer, president of the loard of lady inanagers, has been cordially invited to visit Mexico in the interest of the exposition. The Committee on Foreign Exhib its' met and decided that no more Resi dent Commissioners of the. exposition be appointed ' in foreign cities and countries. The Construction Department has sent to Spain for the exact -dimen sions of the convent of La Ribida. The reproduction of this structure is to cost $50,000. Indiana will have a $100,000 build ing at the Fair. It will not cost that much, however,as a large share of the material, all of which will come from that state, will be donated. The special commissioner to Persia, cables the Director-General that he lias visited Samarcand. Bokhara -'.and Merve, and has arranged for exhibits from them. There will bo not less than 25 res taurants, as well as numerous cafes, in the Exposition buildings. It is the intention of thoExpositioa authorities to protect visitors from : exorbitant charges. The State Department at Washing ton, has been notified that Russia has appointed its royal World's Fair com mission, and that the president of it is Privy Councillor Behr, Director of the Department of Finance. It is expected that there will be fully 3,000 dogs entered in the Expo sition bench show. The various ken nel clubs propose to supplement the already satisfactory premium list by a number of very handsome medals. The general passenger agents of twenty of the railroads entering Chi cago have organized a special associa tion for the determination of excur sion rates to the Exposition and for arranging facilities for caring for the enormous crowds of visitors to the World's Fair. A TYPESETTING CONTEST. Chicago, HL, Oct. 9. A special committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, consisting of CoL Frederic Driscoll of the St. Paul Pioneer Press, E. II. Woods of the Boston Herald, and Major W. J. Rich j.ard&of the- Indianapolis News, will rtfW i t-Twif-tt!v" inirhinp v.n'fst during the coming week in the CLica- go Evening Post Building. The ma- chines which Mersrenthalvr wili compete linotype, the are the Rogers tyjjograpli, the -McMillan" typesetting machine, and the St. John typo bar. j Commencing Monday, Oct. 12, the j will continue 'privately for six j Jays and for one week thereafter, 1, commencing Monday Oct. 10," the mar chines will be on- exhibition to the public and newspaper men every where, j Newspaper proprietors and publishers great interest in the contest the first of the kind ever held. To assist them in their work the committee wtlh have with them the forraen of their compos ing rooms. TIIinVdKLirs.XFAVS. A COXIKNSKI SU.MMAUYOF j a avi:i:ks doixcis letiins the Iursenir:il C'onnrit. Heavy lot in Northern Texa. (mv. Patti-Miu Iwur-i a Proclamation Heath of Cha. S. 1'arneU. THlKSDAY. OCTOIJKU ft..' A 1 A movement is on foot in Richmond j Va., to erect a monument to the mem ory of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart. A meet ing for that purpose lias been called for October, 2 S. Lorenzo M. Wilson, who was for sometime vice president and general manager of the Mobile and Montgom ery R. R., died yesterday at his home h. Mobile. He was 82 years old. The Charleston Daily World, Week ly World, and Sunday Budget, all published by the World Budget Com pany of Charleston, S. C, have suspen ded publication. The World is four year old. The opening services of the great Eumenical Methodist Council took place yesterday morning m Washing ton, D. C. Delegates manv of them 1 O celebrated men, are present from all parts of the world. Many delegates of the African branch of the Metho dist Church are in attendance. FOKE10N. Sir John Hennessey; Member of Parliament for North "Kilkenny, died Tuesday -night. . Charles .Stewart Parnell, the noted Irish leader, died at Walsingham Terrace, Brighton, Tuesday night.. His death was the result of a cold which he contracted las!; week, lie had been in bad health for some time past. I'liiD.W, o(:roi!;;i; y. Gov. Campbell of ( tliio lias com menced two libel suits against the Commercial la.ette of Cincinnati, each for s50,0u0. 1 $1 00.000 has - been- voted bv .A j Florida World's Fair Convention for an exhibit at the World's Columbian Exposition. A heavv frost visited Northern. Texas on -.Tuesday night doing consid erable damage t' the cotton crop. The indications point to more frost. There 'is now being, hold in Rich mond, Va., ' the first Colored people's State fair ever held in Virginia. Some of the exhibits an; very, creditable. About two thousand bales of cotton in Hunter & Co's warehouse at Mont gomery, Ala. caught fire yesterday and was consumed. The loss is fully covered by insurance. FOREIGN'. The well-known Russian composer, Glazounoff, has been compelled to de posit 15,000 roubles with the Russian Government as bail, in order to avoid being arrested in a Nihilist case. The Cotton Association of Cairo in making its report on the Egyptian cotton crop says that the recent cold and foggy weather has seriously affected the crop. The Association estimates that the yield will be about 3,750,000 canters or about 170,000, 000 pounds. SATI IIDAV, OCTOIIKK io. The National bank at Enterprise, Walla Walla county, Oregon was robbed of 3,500 in broad daylight on Wednesday afternoon by three men who afterward escaped to the moun tains. A -posse has been." organized and is in pursuit but ha3 small hopes of captuiing the robbers. A. S. Mann & Co., extensive dry goods dealers at Rochester, N. V. have failed. This failure is a great surprise a3 the firm was a very old one and was always considered very strong finan cially. Their liabilities are given at 1 00,000. The largest preferred cred itor is II. B. Chaflm of New York, for s20f000. R. G. Dun & Co's weekly review of trade says: Prices of manufactured ' pro-iucts are low and t:;e roannn lor j prout very narrow But the voiume of trade is larger than in any prevlou4 vear -ryite of the fcl that soma j branches of business are retarded. j-ftl2,000,000 in :o4 has already ar- nvt-1 from Kuroie ami KJ. jt'uJJUU noreison the wav. -At ''the South - . , ne improvement is irenerai, ana heavv t receipts of cotton are noted at Savan- hah. Charleston. (Jalvestcn and Xcw Orleans. Failures for the past ees 270 against 220 last week. lor.r.tGX. - A good ram in India Las given a more favorable outlook to the crops. The police of Kieff, Russia, have captured a band of forgers who were turning o;it prgv qoaititiea of ten, fire and three rubSnoteC i m w, u loiu.r. II. The Associated Hanks of New York now hold $0,040,725 in"-excess of the requirements of the 25 i r o ut. rule. j Exports of specie from he port of j New "W.rk las week amounted to AS')s.17 and inmnrti of cwvv. .1?- 1 - " " ' w.j,.v v., j the same -.time were $3,7a4,4St4. i rin 2 j Another gusher lias been "struck in j the McDonald field near Pittsburg, Pa. Tne 53 fuI1' a h mile from the other and is now yielding 14,000 barrels per day. Jack Mullms has been convicted in theU. S. District Court at Arlington, Va., of intimidating voters at the last Presidential election. He was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $500. FOUE1GN. The Pope has just announced in an order, that it is his desire that no fur ther pilgrimages to Rome be underta ken for the present. A petard was exploded to-day in the Fuctra Del Sol, the principle square in Madrid. The author of the act has not been discovered. : 3IONIIAV, (KTOIlKIl 1. The Government is about to begin the work of hydrographic surveys for the preparation of charts of the great lakes, something which has never been lone before. Navigation to and from Lake Su perior has been stopped by a wreck. The steam barge Susan E. Peck came into collision with thy schooner George W. Adams. Ileald's lark mill and Singer's barytes mill at Lynchburg, Va., were destroyed by fire at an early hour yesterday morning. These mills cm. ployed 200 -workmen.. all of whom will be thrown out of work. Loss, $150, 000. The Dakota banking laws have 1hh;-ii declared unconstitutional -by Judge White. The ;aws cuiifer the ngut to discount paper. buy exchange, loan t money and receive deposits, on corpo rations exclusively," and deny the right to private individuals. The State has appealed to the .u pre me court. r"oi;'.l.... -Premier Canovas del Castillo of Spain has nearly recovered from his attack of influenza. Lord Salisbury wiil resume his du- ties at tne Hritish J oreigu Cfuc o on Friday; he has been visiting Lie Con tinent. TLi;,i vv, o( nmi:u i:j. California lias again been visited by an earthquake. The shock is said to have been -the severest ever felt in that region. $810,000 in gold arrive 1 at -Now. York from Europe on Saturday and Sunday by the steamers Umbria, El be and Labretague. The great ocean steamers now arri ving at New York report a very stor my passage, quite a number of passen gers being injured by the towing and rolling about of the ships. Governor Pattihon of Pennsylvania last night issued a proclamation to the Senate, which meets in extraordinary session this week, calling upon them to inquire whether sufficient cause ex. ists for the removal from office of Auditor General McCaul and State Treasurer Boyer and also whether there is cause for the removal of the magistrates and constables of Philadel phia. KoiiEIGN. A gang of robbers in Rome has been broken up by the arrest of seventy-five persons. The cattle-ship Storm King, from Montreal, lost 152 out of C30 cattle during her trip to England, when she arrived vesterdav. vi:in:siav, croni;i; 14. Thrto men were killed and two in jured by the falling o the cage of shaft No. 2 at the tunnel at Niagara Falls, N Y. yesterday afternoon. - The fcl.oriae of William Evan?, the niksing Secretary of the Moore Woo! Co! pany of . St. IUiS. la now p.accd at C;U';J. The British scL'ner lH:htxa' of 'St.. N. B Ca;-t. G wan, with a car j go of lime and Uths, grounded on S .l-HJVii S iA-'lgi-, uw. I Monday mornm afterward comiog oI. and sinking in de2T water, . . , , ,, s tU yew J,rs,s,t for twenty f f05Jf hours dobg gn-at dautae ia i beaches, pamions, teiepuone ana ieie j graph lines. Th tide was' higher ttaa I it Lx.i l.-cn for years. Imports say thai China and jEug- 4 land 0e getting uneasy over mm ,atu tude of Ho&sia in regard to Cbiaef territory ' and Afgh43iit4:n. It b " irned that both are being encroacheil tii-cn by Bussian troop?. TIIK P. S. S. DESPATCH. Tin: n.irATi:i no at. irrrn KALLY ix iii:ciw. TeiMjwMrarj- AU-mrr f he Llfhtahlp The first authentic de tails of the vrock 5 m of the U. S. S. iKpatch on Assatcagno Island, Va., wire received hero la evening in a private letter -Jfrom V well.known gentleman o( Washington city, who vUitI the eenepf Uio wreck n Sunday afternoon Especial importance attaches to this letter, coming as it does from a private citi. zen, on account of what it mentions as the probable cause of this disaster. The suggestion that the temporary absence of a lightship from an impor tant place on that' treacherous coast misled the navigating bfficer of tbo ill-fated Despatch, considered in con- nection with the fact that local pilots are not employe! on tbo ships of our Navy, affords material for serious reflection and lirely speculation. This letter was written atc Sunday night at Chincoteaguo, and runs as follows: I have just returned (to Chin coteague) from the wreck of tho Uni. ted States steamer Despatch. Sho went ashore yesterday morning at 3 o'chx'k, just off A asatcagug Island, which is east, of this island about a mile. The wrck lies about three, miles north of the Boutli end of the Ldand, about, seventy.five yards from the shore. Everybody who was aboard landed safelyV amTall are well, but a long. faced set of men, as the ship is a total wreck, and every one has lost all his clothing except what was on his back. It was a remarkablo sight to see tho ship roll, slow and graceful, so near the shore, as she lies listed toward tho sea, apparently endeavoring at each surge to reach the shore, but Old Nop tun. holds her in his tight grasp. Now and then a crash in heard iu tho high . wind and sea; a davit IrfO-sens its hold, or shattered planks; moldings, chairs tabu s boxes, &c, t-pread themselves over tho watery surface. The wliole bearh fof oyer three miles is :-trewu with wreckajjc,- and it looks as though hundreds of pooplo are along tr jbserve every new object of interest which floats ashore. One man rushes down to catch a box of cigars, another a box of candlcsf an other one of canned meat. Then her dashes a haudomu. chair; tho largo refrigerator tcsc aUjut and in . one high surge, lands high and dry, with its hinges broken. Two bright colly dogs and a Maltese cat, hpecial jets of the Isailors, are saved,- whilst on tho wreck tho last living thing is a cat. At nightfalls she fctill clings to tho ship, apj&rcntly unconcerned, and this fact is a re. markable coincidence in connection with the KupeMitionsofthf VvcragG sailor. All atttet that,1:i ta.tiag out froii tho navy yard ' Li V.: okln " a black cat jamjed ovcr"wrd. and swaia. ashore, which was looked ufon aa an evil omen among iho rcen And tut remarked throughout tbo ship. It k something strange U stand and hear their comments on the solitary cat in view upon tho highest part of tho wreck, near the stern, where tho waves have not yet reached with wjld jforce. Juntas wo were leaving tho ahip male another lint, tho steam launch disapjjeared with her last avit, and the yard arms reached the water. The . tea rolling with increased anger, the wind blowing from tbo northeast at a twenty-mile ejedL and it waa the op;n;on of all hands that by 'daylight to morrow morning nothing will be Ke n of the Despatch but .the , strewn wreckage on the beach, ;t . This disaster is accounted foe Cy the absence of a lightship at Winter Quarter Shoals which vti takeo awar a short time ago to lKprerbauled, and the t.-irsnian supposing the Aasa-t-ague light was that lightship! bea con, wa misle!. This lightship, m tol l ia now at Wilmington, JM.t un dcrj'oinir retoiri. The hfo having men were on band j promptly under command ; of Cait 1 Jaiies Tracy, and did noble 'aerriee in rescuing all on brard. Tne officers are all comfortably rpiartrcd at tb hfe-sarjng? and tha crew arc pretty cotoforUiy hfcltered tu itn provided tents, to .the ka of lh feind hills, within a hun dred yard of the wreck. Where the Despatch lies is jvpL ;-f;ti rniles fcouth of the Martland u-aguo Lightkousv, a little tiortli i east.. . $ - :f :. We hadab'-it cr.a caJo of wading across thelir-1 '&) are called in 5aterTr My .?j,orJ-"ew. j conTeyancvculd bo Jud,'ada roro . faUguing walsTo! nearly twelve -inile; from this town wad back U bard to be found. 11 wuJuHqtvM Jt. : . .? s -'-,' ' 0 4. w t -1, O . ' - .0 V . .ft vo5
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