The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-04
TERRIFIC GALE ON THE COAST OF IRE
LAND


The most terrific gale which, for its violence and
fatal effects, had been known for twenty wears,
took place on the eastern coast of Ireland on
February 9Th and 10th. A great number of lives
were saved by life boats at various points and
while engaged in this noble service, Captain Boyd,
OF Her MaJesty's ship Ajax, together with his
boats crew, were unhappily drowned. The papers
TEEN with accounts of wrecks and presentations of
lives.
The English and Irish papers abound in harrow
ing details of the disasters.
"At Bray" says the Dublin Freeman's Journal,
"where the storm ragged with no less fury, one of
those heroic deeds which exalt human nature WAS
performed by James Lacy. James Boden deserves
almost equal cOmmendation. A large brig went on
shore, and the men cupg to the rigging, while a
frightful sea broke over the vessel Boden succeed
ed in casting rope to the men, of whom four rot
ashore. One remained on board, and he was be-
lleved to be too faint to make his escape. He
showed no signs of animation and was reported by
his fellows to be in sinking state. How was he to
be rescued? No boat could venture out in such
sea, and the rope was unavailing. Lacy volun-
teered TO work his way to the brig along the rope
and nearly perished in the attempt. He succeeded
in reaching the ship-ashed the haldead man to the
rope, and with the aid of some of the fisherman of
Bray, the last OF the men drawn to land
through the raging SURF Along the Northern
shore, as might have been expected the scene was
still more narrowing, if one terrible disaster could
be surpassed in horror by another. From Howth
10 tne mouth OF the BOyne the coasts srewed with
the fragments of wrecks. Several vessels, some of
them of large tonnage, were driven ashore, and, of
course, went to pieces. They attempted to beat off
but that dreadful northeaster forbade escape, and
they broke up The crews are mostly reported to
have escaped but one very sad occurrence, in which
every man on board persisted, took place in the
forenoon on Saturday at Skerries. large schoon-
er-rgged vessel struck the rocks, and went down
in deep water. Not a particle of her hull or rig
ging could be discovered few minutes after, and
with the ship perlshed the crew to man.
MR.. THOMPSON AT HOME.
The Hon. Jacob Thompson. late Secretary of the
Interior, was welcomed to his home in Mississippi
by number of his neighbors and friends, to whom
he made brief speech. In the course of it he said
that there was no serious difficulty in the Cabi-
net until after the Presidential election when there
arose discussion upon the rights and powers of
the General and State Governments. On the right
of State to secede the Cabinet split at once but
on the right of the General Government to coerce
State all agreed in the negative. Mr. Thompson
held strongly to the right to secede but kept his
place IN the hope, as he says, of preserving peace
he agreed with the President that it was his duty
to enforce the laws and hold public property, but
held that the army and navy could only be used as
a posse to aid the civil authority and as all the
civil and executive officers in South Carolina had
resigned, there could be no attempt to uphold the
laws. He held also that forts in the seeding
States could not be occupied military posts with
out endangering the peace of the country. He not
only pressed this view Of the subject but insisted
that the President had no right to reinforce the
detences in Charleston harbor. The transfer of
Major Anderson's command to Fort Sumter he re-
garded as an act of hostility towards South Caro-
lima; but when he found that troops had been sent
by the Star of the West, he Immediately waited
upon the President to tender his resignation. He
then further says:
Gas was writing my resignation, l sent des-
patch to Judge Longstreet that the Star of the
West was coming with reinforcements. The troops
were thus put on their guard, and when the Star
he ivpd n yVar rD1 well m n
from booming cannon, and soon beat a retreat l
was rejoced the vessel not sunk, but was still
more reoiced that the concealed trick, first con-
ceived by Gen. Scott, and adopted by Secretary
Holt but countermanded by the Presiden: when
too late, proved failure"
EXECUTION NEGKoEs.-We understand. saws
| the Murtreeshoro' IN. c. Citizen, that two of the
negroes convicted of being concerned in the murder
ct Mr.: Woodruff, in Northampton county, on the
Slst of December last, were hung at Jackson, n.
| g., on Saturday last One of the murderers, il
will be remembered, was lynched by the excited