The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-03-01

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excitement which the losa aoEAhA Moth
feet caused in EnRaA2d sslf koid1uss
to show itselt in SAf5d19 e6araotaxisti
ways. The steamer, ESCAPED likss
Il conscious tnurdereiS4as ssh6 confusion,
Nnds darkness, has Been SVildiotiyeiS'
|Watehed fots in every port 81 Europe;
the inefficient means Of .escspe provided
on emigrant ships is blamed; the, made
quate signal system, DO. Contributions
for the few remaining victims pour In
from every quarter, from the Queen to
thehalf starved miners. That 800 souls
should be thus lost in calm sea, within
sight of the English coast. surrounded
by dozen vessels, within easy hearing
stead, would be enough to account for
the thrill of universal horror, and the
eagerness with which the whole nation
has risen to repair the injury as far Us
practicable, we're it not that catastrophes
just as general and terrible have occurred
and died out Of notice in day.
But there was single point of human
interest in this ship as it went down,
which made all nations akin as they
looked Mt it. a multitude Of deaths Of
unknown men and women is. after Ill,
only ghastly vague fact, Unconditional
ss the sum total of bill of mortality.
Bnt this Capt. Knowles, wakened out Of
his sleep to flud the ope . seq yawning
beneath, and these 400 souls dependent
upon him, on the instant cool, steady,
sagaoious, seeing that death was inevita.
bic, and standing on it's edge to choose
out the weakest and most helpless to be
aaved-there is real live man whom VIC
would fain claim as the brother of US ALL
''The captain was the only quiet man
aboard, said one Of the survivors,; she
was about thirty years old, and had been
married six months. He kept the crew
back with pistol in one hand from tho
boats, and helped the women and chill
dren in with the other. Some called him
to tie himself to spar, bat he went on
lifting in tho women. He gave his wife
to the boatswain in one Of tue boats
Take care of her, boatswain,' he said
vii never see you again. dear girl.
Mrs. Knowles was young thing, very
much of child. She wanted to go
back on dsck and die with her husband,
but we held her"
While We look through the night at
the ship going down with this man ut
his post on her, other remembranccs
come back to US; of Robert Shaw,
buried in pit with his niggele;" of
the engiaeer Kealey, lying dead at the
bottom Of the river, and the train he had
saved safe at the other eide; and, dearer
than nll, OF another ship TINT sank in the
British Channel, not many years ago.
There was part of. an infantry regiment
on board, returning after five years
absence from India. "When it was
found that the vessel was sinking, and
that the boats were insufficient to hold
the women and children, the colonel, to
prevent confusion, marshaled his men in
rank on deck. They obeyed, and pre-.
sented; arms" And SO, almost within
sight of the home they had not seen fol
five years, foot to foot and shoulder to
| shoulder, silent and immovable, as
| though ready to charge upon the foe,
they went down.
There are men whose lives are clad
with great deeds or words as with roya]
garment; bat these were homely and
common place, doing the task of every
day, after no high Roman fashion, but
quietly and steadily. Attempting and
achieving no more than this, they passed
through the great dark portal which
never opens twice for any man; but
when it has closed behind them, it seems
I'd us as though king had gone out
from among us.-New Fork Tribune.
FATHER RYAN.--It will be seen by the
following, which We ofiD from fhe Morn.