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THE TOILERS OF THE SEA.

tchoOner I'm the Cycione--NInsts and Yards
GrnU-Driven Round and Round-Twice on
l,E Beam Euds-SRved mt Last.
among the tidings of the disasters attendant
on the hurricanes is that of the miraculous
g cape of the schooner Dutch Princess, Captain
Hansell, which left New York on the 18th of
August for Maracaibo, laden with full cargo of
general merchandise, and three passengers. Up
to the 29th the voyage was remarkably pros
porous. On the afternoon of that day the
weather became clouded, and a heavy gale
sionally to east. The following day the
gale had increased in intensity, and
towards evening became a hurricane. All
sails we're taken in aud the vessel was
put before the wind under bare poles until noon,
when the sea ran noun tains high, apparently
about to engulf the vessel The captain,
seeing that the ship was in danger of going
down with rum concluded to lay her to, be-
lieving it to be the only course open to him.
The perilous moment of swinging her round to
bring her head to the wind was not passed with
out danger, for in so doing she was thrown on
her beam ends in the trough of the sea. All on
board thought she was going down. The deck
load, consisting of kerosene, was nearly all
washed away. The captain seized an axe out
of the cabin and cut away the mainmast rigging,
by which means the topmast went overheard,
which helped her slightly. Ia doing this Captain
Howell chopped his foot badly. The cabin was
full of water, and one of the passengers had q
narrow escape from drowning. She was at last
brought head to the wind and righted. The
uuTIlCdHe DleW JeTTlHCly lTOu all rOunu Ino
compass, driving the vessel round in circles and
tearing everything on deck to pieces and loos-
ing her bowsprit. Again she was thrown on her
beam ends and began to leak badly. 1t was
found necessary to cut away the foremast, by
which she again righted. Leaking badly, with
her masts gone and the hurricane raging, the
unfortunate vessel was at the mercy of the
winds and waves, and those on board expected
to 90 down every moment. The following
day the gale abpted, and an effort was made
to rig up a sail on the stump of the
mainmast: it worked successfully for
half an hour, and was then blown into shreds.
All hope was again given up of saving the ship,
as the sea was running awfully high and the
vessel laboring heavily. In the dire extremity a
council was held by the captain, mate, and
sailors as to what should be done in the emer-
gency, and it was resolved to allow the vessel
to drift, as she was utterly beyond control.
The next day the sea began to lessen, and with
renewed energy the captain succeeded in rig
ging up an awning and leg-of-mutton sail, and
to make for the nearest port, which was St..
Thomas, according to observations taken, and
in this manner creeping along the Dutch Prin-
cess arrived at St. Thomas in a sinking con-
diition.
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THE VALUE OF PARIS.
What Is Risked In the Present Siege

The London Economist calculates how much
property the defenders OF Paris expose to dan
ger by awaiting Prussian attack:-1. The
value of the house property may be approx
mately arrived at by an estimate based on the
value of London property, and apportioning to
Paris an amount proportionate to the popula-
ton. London, with population of 8, 400 900,
having valuation of about f27O, 900, 000, which,
capitalized at about twelve years purchase,
represents a sum of G324 100000, we may
reckon that Paris, with a population of
worth about e1T, 100000. Deducting ten
per cent as the value of the ground rents
and unoccupied area, which may be treated as
indestructible, though ground-rents would fall
if Paris were half destroyed, we have net sum
of e154, ,350,00O, representing the value of
Partisan buildings which q complete lombard
ment and street defense would annihllate. 2.
On this basis we may calculate that an amount
will be invested in furniture or contents of the
dwellings. In this way we get an estimate of
Ell, 600 as the value of furniture and other
contents of Partisan houses. 3. The value of
the stock in trade in Partisan shops and ware
houses will probably be at least one-third the
aggregate of the above amounts-another sum
of EFT, 175, ,000 This is a minimum computa-
tion 1t appears from the returns of our fire.
insurance duty, when it existed, that the stock
in trade insured over the whole of England
was about one-third the value of the entire
property insured; and as stock-in-trade is dis
proportionately concentrated in large cities it
is safe to reckon that in city like Paris the
proportion of stock in-trade to other insurable
property will be as great as the average of the
whole of England. Probably the estimate is far
below the mark, though very low one would
of course be proper just now, considering the
withdrawal of property which must have been
going on in expectation of siege. These three
figures sum up as follows:-1. Value of build
iDgs, e154, ,350000; 2. Value of furniture and
other contents of dwellings. e77, ,175, 900; 8.
Value of stock-in-trade, Ell. 175 600 = total
e311, 700 900, which we may take as the mini
mum value of private property in Paris de-
structible in siege.
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POPULAR FEELING IN FRANCE German
war correspondents make frequent references
to the intensely hostile feeling of the French
population. Herr Wachenhusen, of the
Cologne Gazette, says:-''That at Nancy the
billetting of the soldiers has been suspended,
in consequence of murders committed on
them in their quarters. There, as in every
part of France occupied by the invaders, the
hatred of the people is daily increasing and
the foolish hope of driving out the enemy by
O national rising is famed by emissaries of
the republic. Six thousand men are said to
be already under arms concealed in the woods,
and commanded by General AS yet there
have been few outrages of this kind, but a
gendarme has been murdered at Nancy, and
postillions are fired on. IF the guerrilla war
fare, against which we know how to defend
ourselves, really commences, it will flame up
in every corner In the vicinity of Metz, ac-
cording to another writer, soldiers have a
second time been fred on at Mariculx, and in
an adjacent village the road was blocked up
with heavy stones. A fine was imposed,
which had the next day to be increased FIVE
fold, as the stones were still not removed.
change of the position of the troops before
Metz recently gave the people the impression
that the Germans were retreating, and that
MacMahon was advancing from the Vesges
with 2OO,0 600 men. Nobody believes in the
magnitude of the French defeats, and though
those who saw the long trails of prisoners
pass by have misgivings, they are not without
the hope of turn of fortune. Metz, it is iu-
sisted, can hold out not only months but years,
the provisions being on SO large scale and
the heroism of the army and townspeople
being so great.
ga few days ago a woman offered some
brandy for sale, attracting group OF soldiers
around her, but it was found to be poisoned,
and she was arrested. The writer regards
the attitude of the people as a cogent reason
against the annexation of Metz and its
vicinity. Another correspondent states that
at Muhlhausen, where the railway station is
occupied by the Germans, they do not enter
the town unless armed to the teeth. They
have been fired on frequently, but at pre-
sent only one Uhlan has been killed. The
artisans are strongly inclined to Communism,
and before the entry of the troops had de-
molished the Town Hall. The rest of the
people, little as they like the Germans, are
consequently glad of their presence. An
officer writes from Champey:-''We are no
longer sure of our lives; an army gendarme
has just been shot before our door, and when
an officer hurried out to look for the crimi-
nal two bullets whistled past his ear. The
offenders unfortunately could not be discov-
cred
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Ward Howe; "Pink and White Tyranny"
chaps. viii ix x, Mrs. II. b. Stowe; 'Tndian
Summer" "What Happened to the Khan
and the Poor Mans Son." THEOLOGY and
Faith, " Edward A. Horton; "Quack Chem
lists, T. w. Clark; "Rebeccas Ma, Fred.
w. Loring; "Talk about the Tea Table, The
Examiners" "Record of Progress"
The Schoolddy Visitor for November has
a pleasant variety of stories, sketches, and
poetry adapted to the tastes of young
readers,
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bhMI-MONTHIY LINE TO WILMINGTON, N. q.
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November l9 at A. M. Returning. will leave Whining
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Connects with the Cape Fear River Steamboat Oom
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Mr.. Percival, the barrister appointed to
revise the list of voters for the city, recently
resumed his sittings at the Court of Commoa
Pleas, Guildhall, when MIR. Louis Birnistingl,
Nos. 90 and 81 Basinghall street, claimed to
be registered. Mr.. G. Smith objected
to the claimant on the ground that he was an
alien. The claimant said he was born in
Hungary and had come to England when very
young. He afterwards went to Australia,
where he remained for many years. By virtue
of an act of the Colonial Legislature resi-
dence of certain period in that colony
naturalized him and obtained the rights of a
British subject. The revising barrister said
the case must stand over until the claimant
could prove to his satisfaction that this was
the case.
1t has been the unanimous opinion of
even the ''oldest inhsbitant" that pig was
incapable of sustaining itself for any length
of time by swimming, from the fact that
from their peculiar mode of using their fore
legs the sharp hoof would cut their throat
The following will tend to disabuse such i'm
pressions: lugger George and William,
Hunter, of Lowestoft, when seven miles off
Southwold, picked up a live pig. Poor
"pigpy" bad had n long swim, for there was
~ r.sseI w DO se0A near the spot
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The SURRENDER OF STRAsBURG.-The
StGdtsGnseiger publishes the terms of the
capitulation of Strasburg, as follows
The royal Prussian Lieutenant General Won
Werder, commander of the corps besieging
Strasburg, solicited by the French Lieutenant
General Uhrich, commander of Strasburg, to
put an end to the hostilities against the fort
ress in consideration of the honorable and
brave defense of the place, agrees to con-
clude the following capitulation:-
Article l. At o'clock in the morning on
Sept. %, 1870, Lieutenant-General Uhrich
evacuates the citadel, the Austerlitz gate, the
Fisher gate, and the National gate. At the
same time the German troops will occupy
these positions.
Article 2. At II o'clock on the same day
theFrench garrison, including Gardes Mobiles
and National Guards, leave the fortress
through the National gate, take up position
between lunette No. A and redoubt No. 81,
and there lay down their arms.
Article 3. The troops of the line and the
Gardes Mobiles become prisoners of war and
march out with their luggage. The National
parole, and by II o'clock A. NJ surrender
their arms at the Mayors Office. The list of
the officers of these troops at the same hour
to be furnished to General Won Werder.
Article 4. The officers of the French garri-
son of Strasburg are at liberty to depart and
chose their own place of residence, on parole
the form of the parole is attached to these
articles of capitulation. Those officers who
do not sign the parole proceed with the pri-
soners of war to Germany. All the French
military surgeons remain until further notice
in their functions.
Article 5. Lieutenant General Uhrioh, im-
mediately upon the surrender of arms, agrees
to deliver over, through the proper officers,
all the military material on hand. Officers
and officials charged with this duty assemble
on the 28th, at y o'clock, upon the Place de
Broglie.
This capitulation is executed and signed by
the following plenipotentaries-On the Ger
man side by Lieutenant Colonel Won Leszyn-
ski, Chief of Staff of the corps besieging
StrasDurg, and Count Henckel Won Dom
nersmark, Captain of Cavalry and Adjutant.
On the French side by Colonel Ducasse,
Commander of Strasburg, and Lieutenant
Colonel Mangin, Sub director of Artillery.
Read, accepted and signed, Won Leszyn-
ski, Count Henckel Won Donnersmark, Du-
casse, Mangin. Affirmed Mundolsheim,
September 2s, 1870. Won Werder, Lieu
tenant Colonel.
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by them young OF fighting men, g. e., be-
tween the ages Of twelve and thirty-seven.
Out of the rest, no less than ninety were
women, and fifty were children, all under
twelve years of age, ''and many in their
mothers arms" Does this account holp
matters at all9 General Sheridan replies by
showing how ''at least 900' whites, men,
women, and children, have been murdered,
more or less brutally, by Indians, since 1862.
Does the accumulation of all the Indian
slauRhters for eight years, throughout all the
Indian command, offsetthis Wholesale slaugh-
ter of l4O women and children, in q single
csmp of a single tribe2 Or is IL pretended
that the Indian murders are commendable?---
for surely we are not to regard that as vir-
tuous in us which we shudder at in savages.
Had the women and children been spared,
and the braves been slaughtered
though the affair was 80 one-sided that we
lost but single man-everybody would have
applauded, as in the raids of Custer and Carr.
But it is yet to be shown how, granting that
the expedition was needful, non-combatants
could not have been captured instead OF
killed.
It is, however, chiefly because of its injury
to our new Indian policy that we now review
this affair. The new policy has been dis
tinctively announced as one of peace, pro-
lection, and civilization. This policy could
not ana caunOL ClOHh lOE Anuldu
maraudings misdeeds of that nature must
still be punished by the sword. But it is of
the highest importance that in our hostile as
in our pacific dealings with the Indians, we
have right on our side. The Blackfeet had
committed many crimes in Montana, and
winter was the season for striking them;
but by striking them as Red Horns camp
was struck the old anti-military spirit is
reused, and the resolute efforts of the ad-
ministration to keep peace on the Plains
through army Intervention may very likely
be foiled It would be hardly possible, for
example, to transfer at this moment the
Indian Bureau to the War Department; and
the sincerity of the desire expressed by
officers for peace on the Plains becomes
widely, though we think unjustly, dis
trusted. --f .
The only plan finally possible for the ad-
ministration or the army is one of peace and
protection. Mr.. Wilson's bill for promoting
the civilization of the Indians and preparing
them for the rights of citizenship, strikes the
keynote of the true policy. Of course, this
is only possible with peaceful Indians, and
the wild tribes must be treated otherwise.
But we must not forget that those we now
call peaceful" were once "wild, and it is all
but question of degree and of time. The
policy we cannot listen to, even for the wild
Indians, is determination; and any movement
looking towards the latter should be promptly
discountenanced and disaVowed.
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CAPTAIN EYRE'S CRIME.
From the N. Y. Tribune.

hT0fn Inc N. n. ITtotsSe.
There is something worse than shocking in
a disaster of a magnitude for which we have
to blame not elements and accidents merely,
but the heart of man, which is more danger
GUS than the precipice and more savage than
the sea- The disaster perpetrated by the
British steamer Bombay in Japanese waters
was o double calamity. The steamer itself
killed ship, so to speak, but that was an
accident. The captain of the steamer left
more than hundred men to drown, and this
is crime which finds its measure in the sea
which holds it rather than in the ordinary
limits of human perceptions. 1t is worse
than disgraceful to his nation and race-it is
a calamity to his species. We have only to
say in behalf of Captain Eyre that it must
have given him exceedingly little thought and
feeling to commit his great murder at sea as
compared with the thoughts and feelings
which are aroused to denounce it. ~
OF the actual commission of a crime more
or less in the affair of the Oneida, there is no
longer doubt, we grieve to say. In the re-
markably prompt, full, and detailed re-
ports of the disaster, nothing is want
ing to show the nature of the catastro-
phe and the wilful or careless crime which
made the Oneida its victim. 1t is deposed that
the whistle of the Oneida was blown and
three guns fired. Still, the captain of the
Bombay declares that he neither saw nor
heard a signal; yet the steward of the Bonn
bay, on arrival at Yokohama, asserted that
the Oneida had been run into and cut to
the waters edge. So much for this part of
the story. But the worst of it is the evidence
of British lieutenant, that Captain Eyre told
him that ''he had cut the whole quarter off a
damned Yankee frigate, and served her
bloody we'll right" Captain Eyre's own evi-
dence is to the effect that the collision was
too slight to be much suspected, that his pilot
told him that spit of land was near and that
there was no danger, and that he was good
fifteen minutes looking after the ill-fated ship
That ''good fifteen minutes" is a terrible bit
of evidence.
We are far from wishing to PREJUDICE the
case of the Bombay captain, and, for the
honor of our race, hope that he will prove
himself less a reckless villain than he seems.
Let not his infamy, as it stands, obscure the
sublime last act of noble men-the heroism
with which Captain Williams determined to
go down with his ship, the noble courage of
the young Ensign -illustrious examples,
of which marine that claims the memory of
Commander Craven and the immortal boy
Holland can never be destitute when an occa-
sion arises.
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THE PIEGAN SLAUGHTER AND IT
APOLOGISTS.
From the N. Y. Times.

Erona the NJ Y Times.
We can we'll understand how a friendly
fraternal feeling, and certain professional
pride, quite proper in its place, should lead
some of the army officers in Washington to
uphold and approve the late massacre in
Montana. They feel, and we all feel, that
the Indians are a cruel and relentless foe,
who must be struck hard if struck at all, and
that their brutalities are as exasperating as
they are hideous. For all that the Piegan
slaughter, as actually conducted, seems to US
wholly indefensible. II
It is indefensible on two grounds, first, by
reason of its needless barbarity and bru-
tality, and second, in its retroactive influence
on our new Indian policy. 1t was in that
both crime and blunder. AS to the first
point. we need add little to what has already
been said, and little to the emotions which
the recital of facts arouses. We need not
accept entirely Mr.. Vincent Collyer's ver-
sion of the affair, especially as General
sheridan has vehemently protested against
it's being regarded as the true story. But how
much better is the official statement made
to General Sully? The latter tells US that OF
The 173 killed only 33 were men, land Of
these, fifteen only were such as are called
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