Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1856-11-14
Appa1lng Burning of a shIp.---Plraey.

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The Dutch ship Banoa, Capt. Heymans, 700
tons burtnen, with between 800 and 400 emigrants
/ (coolies) for Havana, put back to Macao, about
month since, the despatch is dated Hong Kong, Au
gust 10O with her water casks leaking and cargo
shifted having encountered boserous weather, and
reaching the outer roads brought up TO anchor
There she remained repairing, her officers exercising
strict vigilance in preventing the coolies going ashore
for they feared they should make their escape. For
the three weeks, whatever discomfort may have pre-
vailed, no fears Of outbreak would seem TO have
been entertained until Chinese doctor warned the
captain that mischief was brewing In preparing
such contingency rising Of the coolies, the
tmall arms ere placed on the poop and two guns
were loaded with grape and pointed forward. About
nine o'clock of the night OF the 8th, the disturbance
commenced, and the crew took refuge on the poop.
The captain first fired shot or two overhead, but as
that had effect, and the coolies advancing towards
them, yelling frighfuly, armed with Delaying pins,
bricks torn from the cooking places, &C., the captain
gave orders to his men to fire, and Immediately a
volley poured into the Infatuated mass from the
two guns, and also from the small arms This had
the effect of checking anA putting down the riot,
and the coolies were driven below, but they sought
revenge by setting fire to the ship, and in few min
utes the captain was appalled, by seeing flames is
suing up from the fore hatch. frightful scene of
carnage followed the coolies rushed up on deck,
and no doubt murdered all the officers of the ship.
The ship soon in a blaze fore and aft In oout
an hour the manmast fell with crash then the fore
up with tremendous explosion. The ship in
slantly hurled TO fragments, and vast number of
poor creatures, who clnging the chains, per-
lshed with her. Of the number who were on board,
including crew and passengers about 500, only $50
escaped with their lives; the remainder either
burnt in the ship or drowned. The affair has pro-
ouced great sensation in Hong Kong.
The Economy of Slave Labor Enc Construction of
Railroads.
The report of the President of the Tennessee and
Alabama Railroad Company, in his annual report,
advises the company to buy, with its surplus capi
tai, three hundred slaves, with families, Gin or
der to propagate laborers,) and place them on the
road, reserving to occupy farm, to be rented
for the purpose convenient to the road where might
be produced portion of the provisions needed for
the railroad laborers, and nursery TO be establish
ed for slaves and mules. The gain in using slave
instead of free labor, in building the railroad is de-
monsrated by figures follows
The average hire of negro to work on inter-
| nal improvements in this country is about $175 If
the company were TO purchase at the present prices
(say $1,000 the yearly cost to the company,
pared with the hirelings, will be as follows
Interest 81 900. $50
Total ..... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .s75
which is three. .sevenths-ess than half-for a
hand 10 be employed in grading or excavatng earth,
besides the profit to the contractor. But upon me-
chanical work still greater difference exists. Take
masonry, for example, of which there will have to be
a large amount done. sprightly negro man will, in
six months, make tolerable mason, and in twelve
MONTHS good one for it is a simple trade, easily
learned Generally, masons scarce, and demand
a high price; and contractor Offering for work,
bf ses his calculations upon paying these high prices
The cost to a company owning slaves who
masons and to contractors who hire them, will ap-
proximate to the following calculations:
Interest 81 900. $50
insurance on lie 10
3 bbls. of corn and vegetables 10
Total .$ll5
One hundred and fifteen dollars per year, allowing
two hundred and fifty working days. are equal to
fortysix cents per day, whereas the hired mason will
cost the contractor two dollars two dollars and
fifty cents-more than four times as much.
Death OF the Original Confidential Man.
noted character who once made much noise
IN his peculiar line OF swlndling, as Huntington and
Wight now make in theirs, has passed away
Thompson, alias Davis, with numerous other
names as occasion required, recently died in fit,
while serving out term of two years imprisonment
in Sing Sing. His remains passed through this CITY,
on the way to Greenwood Cemetary for interment-
This noted individual was first arrested in New York
(near the Post Ofce) some years ago. he having
(come the confidence game several gentlemen,
from whom he obtained money, gold watches &C.
which, of course, the owners saw again. He
was convicted and sentenced to the State ison from
which he was discharged over years. Some
month since, Thompson under the name of Davis re-
newed his old tricks again here, but did the work so
bungngly that he caught at it. He obtained
possession OF three gold watches from q eWeler in
the Bowery, under preence of wishing to purchase
one; but crossing the street directly opposite, he
pawned one OF the time-pieces for a small amount
He was watched, detected, and arrested for this Of
fence. Thompson pleader guilty and sent up
for two years He has left relatives of the highest
respectablity-N. Y. Express.
t GOOD STORY TOLD ApRoPos.-Ihe cry of ' out.
rage the disclosures of pretended conspiracies and
the ufacture of threats, attributed to foreigners
n with which the know nothrgs invariably precede
their invitations TO violence and outrage, and the
i brutaItes towards noffensive foreigners is charac
terized in the Cincinnati Enquirer by the following
4 anecdote:
l. This system, so steadily and ingeniously perse
r. verel in by the knownohing journals, reminds us
" a story we once heard in Arkansas. There was ;
<, fellow in certain neighborhood in that State whc
ID was strongly suspected of sheep-stealing. Their,
were good many cases of the mysterious dsap
it pearance of choice mutton from the focks of th
ed planters which traced TO his door bu~being
very wiley and ingenious chap, he generally succeed
ed ed in proving abb, some other defence, whic
K reduced the charge to suspicion At las
he however, planter, who was riding through th
woods, perceived the suspected sheepthie steal fror
the woods, and, after looking around to see that
IN was near, walk up to flock of sheep and DELHI
"a erately knock the largest and fattest. At tn
ba moment the planter rode up, and, confronting tn
"o thief exclaimed:
nd "Now, sir, have got you! You can't get off, 70
"N are caught in the act
~ "What act!" Indignantly inquired the thief.
n nte "Sheep.stealing," was the confident response.
=, "Sir you hadsbetter mind how you charge re-
'O spectacle American citizen with such crime 8
sheep-stealng" replied the gentleman with the ne,
rec chant for mutton.
his CHOW. will Won denv that | sov you ill tL