The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-07-11

too. is military nation. That she has ALWAYS been
so at neart, Notwithstanding her genuine love for
peace, 1t did not need volunteer army to rroye
But 1t is an incalcuable gain that foreign nations
can no longer persuade themselves that our mill
tary spirit has evaporated speculate on the hone
'nat our proverbla unreadiness will neutralize the
! zeal winch would be almost worthless without the
means OF effective organization. We NAV regret
the gloomy aspect of affairs which has called forth
TINS new manifestation of our national life, but who
shall blame US for rejoicing in A celebration which
Is sign that if darker clouds shall Gather ropnd
us, every man will do his duty.
WRECK OF THE MALABAR.
GREAT Loss OF PRoPERrY--NARRow ESCAPE OF LORD
ELGIN AND BARON GRoS.
The London Times of the 22nd uitimo comes to us
with full details of the wreck of the steamer NaIa-
bar, near Ceylon. Among those on board the yes
sci were the English and French Ministers to China.
Lord Elgin and Baron Gros. The Malabar was an
ron-but ship of 0S0 TONS and Just five wears old
She was built in five compartments The disaster
took plack in Gale harbor, Ceylon on the 22nd of
May. .r.... p,
THE soUALL.
| About halipast two o'clock the Maabar's COM
mander, Captain Granger, goes to his cabin for
change OF clothes. He is hardly there when sud
deniy and without a moments notice, comes ter
rlhc squat from the northeast II sweens across
the bay, and strikes the Maabar on her port side,
causing her to heel completely over The moorinG
hawser snaps, and she swings round head to wind
completely reversing her former position Then
comes shock which shakes the vessel from stam 70
stern; second, which brings the saloon skv-ight
IGtashlng into the cabin. Again. again, again and
dip th aater lamp Is shivered to pieces. We are on
oue lte zee ana the rocks are smashing in our plates
| one after another. Captain Granger is on the
Vriu@e-tne engineer at his post but the steam is
| not up, ana the ship crashes and crunches with
every swell. The pumps are sounded. and Give
t rnaee 'egS anu nan water in the after compart
| ment Five minutes later and five feet ora on
nounced Our position is most critical: not a boat
| alongside-not one of the ships boats ready for
Iannching: Before us is the bay with its roaring
swell; behind, at four hundred yards distance the
tort with the sea dashing the rocks which tut
into the water, and breaking in tremendous spray
right against the parapet wall. The wind still
Keeps from the north; iit does not Shift but few
chof-let it drag but six feet and the engine com
partment will be smashed to pieces
THE ESCAPE.
Ihe squall, however, abates and the vessel SWINGS
clear OF the rect. But new danger appears The
compartments are filling fast, and she is vsibIv
settling by the stern. The water rushes into the
tunnel and indicates seven feet in the hold Unless
steam be got up, down she must 90 stern 6rst
in very few minutes. A panic seizes some-hap
PLY but few-of the passengers A rush is mada
to the boats. If they be launched the Lascar crew
will M refuse to work, and in the general rush they
Will be sunk or stove in. Quietly seated on the
poop, Lord Elgin is conversng with his usual tran
qulity Some few days before our arrival he re-
marked that Gale was an unpropitious place for
heard the Of Ind
mutiny in 1857. "Absit onen," was nv reply; but
In the very height of the crash, amid the howlino
wind and the Kissing sea, he asks if I remember
what he told me about Gale Baron Gros nobly
SECONDS MS colleague. He is cool and collected as
though walking on the Boulevards and ENGLAND
and France were never more worthy represented
than by their two ambassadors, who set an exam
pie to every one
The panic is but of short duration. The towards
are shamed by the quiet courage of the CHIEFS
i"enty.hve minutes have elapsed and Mr.. Bailey
the Peninsular and Oriental agent, with Mr. Janty,
the acting harbor- master, comes on board an5
now the steam is up, the chief engineer HAVING
poured gallon after gallon Of oil on the Goals to
quicken their action. A rumor is spread that the
captain Is going out to In truth that was his
first idea. The vessel is provided with nowarrn
pumps, which only be worked when tba ON
gInes are going. There is no room in the barhnr
to steam ahead and the captain trusts he can keen
her aoat outside with the pumps, and so save shin
and cargo All hope is soon DESTROYED bv the faar
ful rapidity with which the water rises. The
chief engineer rushes on deck ''In the name of
Goa: captain, don't proceed to sea; in a
SINKING state. Beach her at once" Bnt tbn
rumor gains ground, and some of the passengers
poster Lord Elgin with vain requests: '.Win not
your Lordshp order the boats to be lowered p"
VIII you not protest against going to sea? ?"
"Wil you not speak to the captain ?"
Lord Elgin steadily refuses to interfere with the
captain in the discharge of his duty, but sends
Colonel Crealock with message-"Iord Flgin
presents his compliments and wishes to know if
o.
Ing down." And are, and that yisiby-
Still not boat alongside the cargo boats having
disappeared after the first bump. The quarter
masters are at the helm, which they have never
quilted during the widest confusion "Heave at
the anchor" "Cheerily, men, cheerily" Thev
work with will, and, God be thanked at the first
revolution of the engines the screw drives her
ahead. The bige injection is set to work but the
water gains rapidly. 1t is up to her stern ports
The saloon and cabins full. She is sinking fast
VIII she live across the BAY and reach the sandy
beach? Mr.. Loeb, Lord Elgins private secretary,
served IN the navy in early life. II goes In the
captain, and asks leave to prepare one of the nuar
ter boats for lowering, so that five sink in cross
ing there may be a chance of saving the women
PERMISSION Is readily granted, and Mr. Loch Col.
onel Crealock, and few others soon have the boat
ready for launching.
Now we are off The stern sinks lover and Iovar
keep your eye on that mast" quietly remarked
across, and if We sink it may be above water" At
length we reach the sand. Let go the anchors
She swings, and the order is given to 90 astern hut
at the first revolution the engines are brought up
standing. The broken hawser is round the screw
HAD 1t twisted the other way, we could never have
gone ahead. We cable, and she is quietly
beached on the sand, stern first. 1t is hiph time
little longer and the water is in the engine-room
The ships boats are now lowered. SO great is the
swell that to lie alongside is a work OF danger There
are some twenty vessels in port but two ONLY send
boats. The first English is swamped in the heavy
SURF The other (French) gets under the ladder
her out. Both have their shippers on board Let
their names be recorded, for they well deserve it,
The Englishman is Peter Upton, commanding the
bark Waverley, of Newcastle. The Frenchman is
Ch Messemaccher, Captain au Long Cours and his
ship Is the Paul Auguste, of Dunkirk
Lord Elgin and Baron Gros despatched Mr. Loeb
and the Comte de Bastard to thank them in the
name Of their respective governments But we
must return to the wreck, where all is prepared for
saving the women. During the whole scene midst
the widest excitement, the ladies behave most
nobly. No shrek is heard, and, though few
tears are shed, there is neither confusion nor dis
may. 10 get them into the boats is no easy matter
but happily it is concluded without accident one
boat receiving them on the starboard, another on
the port quarter. Push off, land them ouicklv
and return to the ship. But here are two men On
the starboard gangway attempting to escape in the
women's boat, which is full enough already. The
officer on duty pushes them back but thew are not
10 De repulsed They slip past him, and leap, the
first for the stern, where he tumbes among the la
dies and nearly capsizes the boat; the second for
the bow, which he misses and takes header right
| into the water. There should have left him, but
| in, quite drenched and halfkiled with fright
| Neither of these men English or French-the
| first is an American skipper, the second Dutch
| engineer. And now boats arrive from the shore
| and the Governors barge is among them But
Lord Egn will not quit the vessel until every pas
senger is saved. One after another he sees them
over the side, and at length steps into the barge
with Baron Gros, the attaches of the two Embassies
| Z
which is all but level with the water and cease TO
| wonder at the narrow escape of Mr.. Clifford one of
| the passengers. He went to his cabin to recover
something for his wife. A sea dashed through the
port, filled the cabin, closed the door, and but for
| the venetian blinds, which gave egress for the
water into the saloon, he would have been drowned
like rat in a hole. We pull for the iettv, where
! the Ambassadors land sorely shorn of their glory
| but having shown under the most irving circum.
stances rare example of courage and steadfast-
| ness.
THE RELIGIOUS WAR IN SYRIA.
The European Consuls made application to the
| local authorities, well to the leaders of the
! parties in the struggle, to effect a reconciliation
but met with the most decided iIlwill on the part
of the former. Hostilities at length assumed such
| an alarming character that the Government re
solved on concentrating force of from 900 to
| 5000 regulars, with some hundreds of Bash-Ba-
Zoucks, In camp at the foot of the mountain, to
| the right of the new road from Damascus. This
| camp was formed on the evening of the 2Sth uIt
| The Governor went there in person on the follow
plosion of hostiities would be either prevented or
promptly be put down.
What, therefore, was the surprise and indigna-
ton felt, when, half hour after the reception of
| the Governor, and just before sunset flames were
other points of the horizon? On the 3Oth these
conhagrations increased, and approached to with
in two miles of Beyrout. Everything belonging
to the Christians was burnt by the Druses, who
assisted in their acts of outrage by the Bashi-
j Bazoucks The apathy of the Governor and of his
/ troops caused the most painful impression On the
91ck infn afin uyas ixrad that