Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1860-02-09

ng' Inc aooress was delivered Dy Hon. Edward Ever
EFT. The Boston Courier says:
We think we never heard Mr. Everett sneak with
such effect. All his themes were interesting and two
OF them were touching. Before entering upon his gene
raj grafton upon Frankn-whch was REPETITION of the
OBSCURE delivered last year-he alluded to two events
which are just now engrosng the attention of the world
the sad catastrophe a. Lawrence, and the death of Ma
caulay. shall do injustice TO the audience before
which have the honor to appear and to myself said
he could begin to address you on any subject
without first giving uterance your behalf and my own
to the feelings amazement and grief caused by the recent
calamity at Lawrence. While first emotions are those
OF unavang sorrow at the sacrifice of e terrific in
amount and doGby for the cruel agonies with which In
many cases. Unjust have been accompanied and of Chris
tlan sympathy with suffering survivors and bereaved
friends 1t Is our duty to cherish sentiment of devout
thankuless to the gracious Providence by which limits
were placed to of destruction and hundreds were
snatched from the very of death Nor can we fail to
take melancholy pleasure in rejecting that the ndescri
babe horrors OF the scene relieved by Christian resg
nation and santke heroism in the humber walks of life
not to be surpassed in the history of race The poor
child who cheerful and unsesh refused to be rescued till
MIR. Nash was saved and who was crushed before her
turn cane-the little girl who when she perceived that
her own escape was impossible held out her bill to her
more fortunate companion amidst the scorching hames
saying, You will be saved-I shall not carry this to
my poor no farther preparation for the
company of the angels to which, like the prophet of DID,
they were caught up IN chariot of fire.. And passing
from that sad topic to another sad Mr. Everett said
Nor will you blame me if, in connection with this Ca
lamlty at our door, alude to the melancholy tdings
which have Just reached us from abroad of the death of
the most brilliant writer of or any other age
whose works for thirty years have been the wonder and
delight of all who read the English language beneath
the circuit OF the sun author who, as it seems to
more than any other ancient or modern was clothed
with the magic power reCreating the dead past, and
giving to the men and thus of other times the form
and color OF an actual revlVng presence writer emf
nent not among ordinary associates but unsurpassed if
not unequalled, IN company of historans-seve-
raj OF them our honored cOuntrymen-two of them
with himself mourntuly sgnaizing the year that has
Just closed and of whom would have conferred suf
hcent honor on the age in which he lived That in the
intensity with which he threw himself into the
described by him. and took part to say, in the great
contentious OF the times, he never fell into of
judgment, or made false estimate of character, need
not he maintained such has been keenly felt in
this country. An honest and fearless thinker and
writer, he could avoid collision of opinion and feeling
with those who differed from him. But his errors wei
spots on the nOoItide Better than this in Lord
Macauley truly nobeman by heavens patent) the
writer was less admirable than the the spendor
of his page exceled if possible, by the briancy OF
his conversation and the charm of his personal inter
course. All the world admired his gorgeous magma
ton, the magnfcence OF his dicton his miraculous
range of memory which grasped the literature of every
language and every age, and held all its stores of illus
tration prompt at command but those who knew him
loved him, for the unaffected meekness with which be
bore his ranscendant honors the sunny cheerfuuess
his disposition the generous warmth of his heart"
| REVOLVING CRUELTY ON SHIPBoARD.-At the Hui
Police Court, the I'd, Danish sailor, named William
Sorenoen, belonging to the schooner Maria appeared
before tie Stpendary Magistrate and through the in
terpeter OF the court told the following tale of revolving
cruelty The vessel had been from Trieste to Marsee
before she to Hull and at Hamburg they shipped
youth of sixteen, named Fritz Lansman. The you'll
had been to before and the day after be lief
Hamburg he sent aott to turl of the sails III
very much frightened and only partly did the work
When he came down the deck, the captain and mat
gave him ten laShes with ropes end. Whenever Lans
man could not work he beaten. A day or two afte
the first thrashng, be could not remember the names
the different ropes, and he got 20 lashes with
He called out terribly and there marks all owe
him. The captain and mate beat him many times after
wards On the last day he was beaten he got eighty
but the captain threatened to give him 6O Iashes. Thu
day before he died they did not beat him. but they tie(
his head between his legs put piece of wood behn(
his neck and another behind his knees and then tie(
both pieces of wood together having first made the de
ceased bend double In this state they threw him abou
the deck and the mate threw chains upon him. On
different days he treated this way for ten or twelve
days. sometimes twice day. The captain also starved
the deceased. When the deceased was tied up, ant
while the chains upon him, he cried out that h
could get air. and could not endure it any longer
The day before he died. the chains were upon him TO
half hour, and at midnight he ordered to 60 tn
pumps When he got hold OF the pumps, he fell down
and never spoke again He died about ten o'clock tn
next morning. That the 18th of August, ant
the vessel off small island belonging to Sicily
deponent did not know the In the evening
when the sun went down, deceased thrown over
board in his sleeping things There were marks all ove
the body of deceased except the chest The Danist
Consul and Collector of Customs at Hull CORES
ponded with by the Magistrate, and the to b.
, examined.-Llverpoot Times, Dec. 3.
TURNED DowN-Judge Underworld OF Georgia, lately de
ceased, although great wit, turned down. ant
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