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was lost, and about go. 600 in SPECIE
inns daring piracy excites Just indigna-
uon among all classes, and calls for the
Vigllant and energetic action of the public
authorities to detect and punish the perpe-
traitors.
From the Albany Argus of yesterday. -
DARING OUTRAeE.-An expire from
Watertown reached this city Yesterday af-
ternoon, bringing dispatches to Gov. Mar
cy, from the District Attorney, Marshal,
&C, at that place by which we regret to
learn that a most extraordinary outrage
was committed within the American wa
tiers, early on Thursday morning. The
British steamboat Sir Robert Peel, living
TO about seven miles from French Creek,
on the river St Lawrence, was forcibly
seized by a body of armed men, supposed
to be Canadian refugees, set on fire, and
entirely consumed.
Gov. Marcv, conceiving the circumstan-
ces such as 10 require the immediate inter
position Of the State authorities, lief, town
soon after the arrival OF the express, in the
evening cars for Utica, and thence, by re-
lays Oh horses, 10 "ateFtoWn.
GREAT FIRE AT NANTucKEr.-The
Boston Mercantile Journal of last eve
ming gives the following particulars of
destructive fire at Nantucket: h.
| II ia@"@ NANTUCKET, June 2; 1888.
A fire broke out in J. James's steam
rope walk. on South Beach, so called,
about 3 O'Clock this morning. 1t spread
very rapidly-and in about three hours
and half it entirely demolished about
twenty-five buildings, among which were
the rope walk, three large oil and candle
manufactures, besides some smaller ones
"a boat builders shop, and ten dwelling
houses, besides number of other build
ings. The quantity of oil connected with
the sheds in this section of the town was
very large. The loss cannot vet be as
certained-but it is generally thought that
it cannot fall short of from three 10 four
hundred thousand dollars! l expect a
part of the property was insured. On
some of it there was no insurance. The
engines are yet on the ground.
A correspondent of the Morning Post
says that from 100000 10 100000 gal
] Ions of oil were consumed, together with
all the contents of the various houses, and
shops-loss varlousl y estimated, probably
not exceeding one hundred and fifty thou
sand dOIars-on which it is not known
that there was more than $1,000 insured.
FROM DEMONSTRATES 10 May 4th
confirm the important decision of the Le-
gis!ature to abolish the apprentice system,
and admit the $4,000 slaves on the Island
to immediate emancipation. which is 10
take place the first part of August next.
| This important experiment will thus again
be tested as in Antigua.-B Boston Press.
In an address by "a Public Officer it
is stated that at Antigua abolition answer
ed the Just expectations of the country, and
went beyond the anticipations Of its best
friends. 1t had so far proved itself good
by the close Of 1885, as to induce the late
President of the Island Ia gentleman of
very liberal principles in general, TO con-
fess that he had never been a convert to it
till then. 1t is no less to be remembered
that there were only twenty policemen to
control 10000 of the peasantry."
The address goes on to state" The
hope OF reward sweetens labor" says the
old proverb, and so it was with the work
ers. A gang of one hundred was en-
ployed on Saturday to hoe a six acre
piece of stiff soil. They completed it by
sunset and received two shlllings curren-
cy each. The same work would have
cost sixty pounds in the time of slavery.
When l visited the Island last November,
found greater quantity of cane land
than had known for twenty years previ-
ousIy. In anticipation of the LIST August,
land is rising in value, and the fact that
the future laborers will also be consum-
ers, and thus increase the trade of the
Island, and that emanci patton will be ben
eficial to all classes, causes general joy to
prevail.
THE SUITS AT jLAw.-We mentioned
last week verbal report. that two suits
at law had been commenced, one of which
was against the Moderator and Clerks of
the Assembly Of 1887. We are requested
by one Of the defendants to state, that the
suit commenced in the name of Miles P.
Squier, Philip G. Hay. and Henry Brown,
is not against the Moderator and Clerks,
in their official capacity, but against David
Elliott. William s., Plumer, John Nc
Dowell, John NJ. Krebs, and r. J. Brock
enridge. The other suit, if we under
stand the matter Alright, is by the trustees
appointed by the Assembly at the First
Church, against the trustees who refused
them seats in their Board, as stated in the
journal Of the proceedings of the Assem-
bly,, in another column. .a.
The suit of the trustees will decide the
question, whether the Assembly at the
First Church, of which DIR. Fisher was
| Moderator, was legally constituted, and