Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1859-02-10
REV THOMAS CURTIS, ID. d.

In the last issue We stated our apprchensions
that the victim of the disaster which has over
whclmed the Bay steamer North Carolina, was,
in truth, the venerable and distinguished Fropre
tor of the Limestone Springs Academy. Subse-
quent advices place the matter beyond conjecture
This sad event will send to very many hearts
thrill of profound and lasting regret Few men
possessed wider circle of relations, and few have
ran long career attended more constantly by the
respect, confidence and affection of his compcers.
The death of DR.. CURTIS is public calamity-a
calamity which especially be!ails the women Of
Carolina, for whom the best and noblest endeav-
ors Of his life were made. In the cause Of female
education he was hardy, energetic and success-
full pioneer; and in behalf6f woman he astaught
a lesson-left an example, which will contribute
inestimably to her moral, social apd intellectual
elevation long after his name has passed from the
minds of men.
To his estimable family we beg to extend that
large measure Of sympathy and coincidence which,
as the interpreter of public feeling, it is pryi
lege to express.
,Frem the Charleston Mercury we take the sub
Joined paragraphs; and in another column we pub
lish detailed account Of the disaster -
"By private letter received in this city, from.
Rev. ]. NJ. W. WILLIAMS, Of Baltimore, all doubt
upon the identity Of the Rev. Mr.. CURTIS, lost on
board the North Carolina, has been removed. 1t
was, indeed, our former fellow citizen, Rev.
THOMAS CURTIS, D. D. From this source we
learn that DR.. CURTIS passed through Baltimore
three weeks previous to the accident, on his way
to VISIT his son, Prof. THOMAS Curtis, of Louis
burgh, Pennsylvania. Before reaching him, how
ever, he received intelligence that the scarlet fe-
yer had visited his family at Limestone Springs,
and he Immediately retraced his steps. On Fri
day, January 90, he took passage on board the
North Carolina, at Baltimore, for Norfolk, Va,
since when, save that he is remembered to have
been on board the il-fated steamer, nothing is
known. We copy the following communication
I from the Baltimore dmerican:"
The death of the Rev DR.. Thomas Curtis on
! board the burning steamer North Carolina on Sat-
urCay morning last, on her passage hence to Nor
folk, must carry thrill of sadness to a vast cir
Gle of friends. particularly throughout the Bap-
,ist denomination, both in England and our own
country. He was an Engishman by BIRTH far
advanced in life, and was for many years n lead
inr Reporter of the debates in the English Par
! lament, and acquainted with all the prominent
political characters of the last fifty years lie
was prominently connected with the ownership
and c,litorship Of the Eclectic Reie'r and person
allv intimate with that circle of eminent men COM
/ prisnr Andrew Fuller Robert Hall, John Foster,
John Ryland, Samuel Pierce, Joseph Hughes, &c.,
of the Baptist denomination, as well as the prom
iueut men of the other English evangelical con-
pections of that period. He came to this country
some twenty years ago-was settled fol some time
at Bangor, in Maine. He was subsequently for
several wears the successful Pastor of the Went
worth street Baptist Church, in Charleston, South
Carolina, and for eight or ten years past has pre-
sided over a fiourishng Female Institution i'll the
upper part of that State, in connection with one
Of his sons, also minister of the Baptist denom-
nation. Another son, also minister and an au-
thor of some celebrity, is Professor in the Lew
sburp University of Pennsylvania. This son, Rev.
T. F. Curtis, will probably furnish an appropriate
b;ouronbical notice of his venerable father. The
friend. at whose house he sojourncd in this city,
states that at the family prayer on Friday morn
pp last he cvnccd Il most unusual carncStiiesS OF
feeling, and of deep, afcctionatc anxiety Tor the
snirtual welfare of that family CIRCLE as well as
fnr the universal welfare Of his fellow men. He
was cheerful in parting with other friends, but
smoke decidedly that he should probably "see
| their faces no more.
Reap We request attention to the Gard OF Dr.
| VIM Curtis, in the advertising column.