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Mln sun. T. DeWOLF K.J.V V KINGTON....T.GILBERT. THOS. GILBERT & €O., Kditors and. Proprietors. BDBSCUIPTIONB. For one year, payablein advance $2 00 For six months, payable in advance 1 25 ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements will be iuserted iu the Weekly Sun at one dollar per square (ten lines or less in nonpareil type,) for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion of the -ame Professional and other cards, not exci ediup five linos, insorted six months for eight dollars, or for twelvejuonths at fourteen dollars. Announcements of candidates for a time not ex ceeding three months, five dollars; for all time over three months, at the rate of two dollars per month—pay required in advance. Tuesday January 3, 1860. Gov. Ilrown has appointed V. A Gas kill, Esq., of Atlanta, compiler of the j Laws of the General Assembly for the Session of 1859. A Mods* tr Cannon. A cannon was cast for the Government the 23d at Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, at the Fort Pitt foundry, weighing over 35 tons. — Snow, &c. The Quincy (Fla.) Republic says after much rain and sleet on Thursday last, it commenced snowing and continued for about three hours. We learn that Mr. lialdy Rutherford, of Chattahoochee county, Ga , was found dead on ihe road side about half a mile from bis residence, on Tuesday morning, the 20th instant, supposed to have been frozen to death while under the influence of liquor. Patriotism va. Affection. It is stated that on the leaving of the train carrying the seceding medical stu dents away from Philadelphia, a young lady appeared in great grief at the de parture of a young man who had gained her affections. Gin House Burned. The Macon Journal and Messenger, of Wednesday, says the gin house of R. R. Slappy, Esq,, in Twiggs, was burned on the night of the 17th inst., together with sixteen bales of cotton. It is believed to have been the work of an incendiary. Heavy Drught of Specie. The Atlanta Intelligencer is informed that the Cashier of the Bank of Fulton returned from Augusta, a few days since, bringing with him SIOO,OOO in specie, which he drew from the Augusta Banks in exchange for their bills. State Treasurer. We learn from a private letter from Milledgeville, that Mr. John B. Trippe, State Treasurer, resigned the office on Monday last, on account of ill health, and that the Governor has Capt. Johu Jones, of Baldwin, to fill the , vacancy. Deatli of Gen. 91 B. Lamar. 1 From the Mobile Tribune we regret to learn that Gen. Mirabeau B Lamar died of apoplexy a few days since, at Rich mond, Texas His numerous personal friends in this city, as well as all others who are familiar with his past history, will receive the intelligence with pro found sorrow. 1 The Newnan Blade of Friday learns that Mr. Douglas, and his staff of Engi neers, are now within ten miles of New nan, and are expected at that place in a few days. It also learns that the corps of Engineers will proceed directly on to Carrolton, and that the road from there to Griffin will be ready to let early in January 1800. Republican National Convention. Among the numbers of the national ex ecutive committee of the Black Republi cans, we observe the names of George Harris, Maryland ; Alfred Caldwell, Vir ginia; Asa S. Jones, Missouri; Lewis Clephane, District of Columbia. The committee invite the People’s Party of Pennsylvania and the Opposition Party of New Jersey to'co-operate with them. Mr. Joseph Walker, Charleston. Mr. Walker who has long been a resi dent of Charleston, and being from the nature of his business constantly in con tact with the merchants and other busi ness men of that city, has established an advertising and collection agency there. In view of the increasing commercial re lations of the South with Charleston, the Press of this section generally, would do well to encourage this enterprise. Mr Walker has been long and favorably known as a dealer in Books, Type, Press es, &c. He will for the future act ns agent for the “Sun” in Charleston. A Georgia Invention. Dr. M. J. Gallagher of Savannah has invented and patented a breech-loading rifle. A trial of the respective merits of this rifle, a Minnie musket and a Sharpe’s rifle was made by Gen. Eli McConnel and John Jones, Esq., at Milledgeville a short time since. After a fair and thorough experiment they pronounced the Galla gher rifle far superior to any breech-load ing arm they have seen. — ; Movement in Oglethorpe College. The students of this medical institution held a meeting recently, at which resolu tions were passed expressing sympathy with the Southern students in the feelings that influenced them to withdraw from the New York and Philadelphia Colleges, and offering them the assurance of the Faculty to recive them without fees, ex cept those incident to graduation. A copy of the resolutions was ordered to be sent to the Southern students in every Medical College of the North. Alabama State Defenses. It is generally known that the Legislature of our sister State has been engaged in originating a plan of militarj State defenses, for perfecting which a Joint Committee of the two Houses was appointed. The general features of the plan, we believe, are the organization ot a corps of eight thousand uniformed vol unteers, iu two divisions, four biigades and sixteen regiments, to be armed by the State ; the purchase of arms amt muni tions, the erection of arsenals, and the establishment of a State Military School. Meeting in Richmond. On reception of intelligence of the action of the Southern students in the New York and Philadelphia Medical Col leges, a meeting of the citizens and stu dents of the Institution of Richmond was held, and suitable preparations made to receive and welcome them. It is be lieved that about one hundred and fifty will stop in that city to finish their course of studies. A private note from Dadeville Ala bama, informs us incidentally that the people interested in the construction of the Opelika and Talladega Rail Road, are much elated on account of the pass age of its Charter through the Alabama Legislature and also, the passage of the Resolutions of the City Council of Colum bus. VOLUME III.} Tile Potter Press. We have had running in the Sun office since the first of August, one of Potter’s Cylinder Printing Machines of large size. It is manufactured in Westerly, R. I-, by C. Potter, Jr., the inventor. Having given 1 it a thorough trial, we are able to speak of its qualities. The principle is much the same as the Hoe Press, with the ex- I ception of the inking apparatus, which is i fully equal, if not superior, to that at tached to the Hoc machine. It runs lighter by great odds than the Hoe Press; is capable of a speed equal to that press, and is the equal in the clearness and beauty of impression produced, as is shown by the Sud, which is printed on type that have been in daily use since the establishment of the paper, four and a half years ago. In cost, it is much cheaper than the Iloe Press, the size we are using costing $650 less. To those of the craft who desire the services of a fast and good press, we take pleasure in re commending the “Potter Press.” We will take pleasure in forwarding orders for the press; and if desired, will set it up and put it to work for a moderate compensation. + The Medical Students. The Mercury gives the following list of the medical students arrived in Charles ton from Philadelphia: G. W. Triblo, Due West, S. C.—2d Course J. M Biowdt.r, Pino Level, Ala.—let Course. J. T. Boyd, Warrenton, 8 C —id Course. J. T. McFall, Anderson C. 11., S. C.—lst Qpurge. E. A. Jelka, Bellnlle, Fla—2d Course. U. R. Foreman, Browuville, Ala —2d Course. P. A. Hag, Madison. N.C.—2d Course. R. L. My rick, Hamah. Ala—2d Course. R. G. Southall, L. P. Tree, Ala.—2d Course. C. W. Lewis, Waldo, Ala—2d Course. W. II Biker, Ely ton, Ala. A C. Townseud Orion, Ala —Ist Course. O B. Briers, Union springs, Ala—2d Course. J W Ligon, Cross Hill, 8. C. —2d Course. J. W. Jones, Marion. Ga. J D. Cunningham, Temple of Health, B.C.—lst. 8 K. Gibson, Greenville C. U , S C.—2d Course. W. C. Leake, Griffin, Ga.— lst Course. 8. Legett, Advil,'N. C.—lst Course. M L.Uoodlett. Greenville C. 11., 8 C—lst Course. 11. 8. Beaty, Unionville, S.C. J. L. Dean, Greenville C. H., 8. C.—lst Course. M. Mtkin, Alabama T. C. Hill, Alabama. W. U Jackson, Alabama. Shell, South Carolina. They were entertained by the Faculty at a regular Christmas collation, and welcomed by the medical class of the Charleston College, in a series of resolu tions. The newly arrived students, highly gratified at their reception, em bodied their feelings in appropriate reso lutions. What Next 1 We are growing weary for some whole some and refined amusements during these long winter evenings. The Theater has come and gone and we are not advis ed whether we shall have it in our midst again or not. Our people as a general thing are pas sionately foud of music, but that has been a scarce commodity so far, in this season and it is very doubtful whether we shall have the Opera or not, especially the En glish Durand Company who so charmed our people last Spring. Can nothing be done for us? What has become of the St, Cecilians? We thought at one time they w uld give us frequent cause to thank them for a style of entertainment far above the common alities, which so much infest our city.— We trust we shall soon have the pleasure of listening to them in an entire new programme of sacred songs ; if, however, they cannot give all new, let us have a concert mixed, a little old and as much new as possible. What say Mr. Presi dent Hodges and Mr. Conductor Vandeu burg. From the New York Day Rook. Hon. Edward Everett, we learn, is to continue to write for the Ne'w York Ledg er during the ensuing year. It seems from this that both Mr. Everett and Mr. Bonner are well pleased with their previ ous arrangement in behalf of the Mount Vernon Fund. The Ledger very truly says: “Mr. Everett’s noble disinterestedness in undertaking such an onerous task, in the midst of engrossing cares and labors for the purpose of furthering the object so dear to his heart; deserves the most cor dial recognition from every person who takes an interest in the rescue of the Ho ne of Washington from the auctioneer’s hammer and the ruthless grasp. No other such spectacle of per sistent, disinterested devotiou to a great and noble public enterprise has been *x hibitedduringthepresent century at least, as that which Mr. Everett has shown in this Mount Vernon movement. Hiscourse has elevated the patriotic tone of the whole country, and set in action senti ments and emotions which have drawn closer the bonds of union from one eud of the land to the other.” In this connection, we take pleasure in stating that the Ledger, as a family lit erary paper, is one which we can cordi ally recommend to the patronage of our friends. Handsome Packages. We noticed yesterday afternoon, at the Manchester Warehouse, a lot of cotton, part of the crop of Messrs. A. & J. Gam mel, put up in handsome style. Unlike the generality of planters, they cover the cotton, and leave no ends or sides opeu for cows or other depredators to filch from the bales. Why is it that planters do not cover their cotton ? Another thing attracted our attention, the bales were of medium size, easy to handle, and free from being torn to tatters by tbo hook Planters should adopt a style of neat ne-s in putting up their cotton, as well as to strive for large and ragged bales. Arrival of Medical Students iu Au gusta. From the Augusta papers, of Wednes iay, we learn that thirteen of the seced ing students from Philadelphia, arrived there Sunday, and are now attending the lectures in the Medical College in that city. They were cordially received and welcomed by the Faculty and their fel low students. At a meeting of the City Council an appropriation of SI,OOO was made to as sist such students from Georgia aDd other Southern States, now at the North, as desire to return to the South to com plete their studies. We have beeu informed that the Direc tory of the N. E. and S. W. Alabama Rail Road have eccepted the proposition of Mr. Scott, of Virginia, to do all the gra ding and trussel work, lay the cross-ties and build all the small bridges. The portion below Tuscaloosa is to be finished in 1860, and the balance in 1861. The payments are to be made halt in bonds and half in cash. —Livingston Messenger. ♦ Alabama Dragoons Is the title of a Cavalry Company organ ized in Montgomery Saturday afternoon. J. H. Clanton was elected Captain. The large Jewelry Store of Hyde & Goodrick on Canal Street, New Orleans, was burned on Sunday the 25th. Loss SIOO,OOO. THE WEEKLY SUN. Connection with the Girard Rail Road. On the night of the 22d inst., the City Council of Mobile concluded a contract with the “Mobile and Great Northern Rail Road Company,” by which the city agrees to issue to the company bonds to the amount of $1,000,000 for a like amount of the company; the bonds to bear 8 per cent, interest, and to be made payable, a portion each year, from 1801 to 1885. This subscription is intended to aid a rail road to be constructed from Mobile “in a north-easterly direction,” but we believe that the precise location has not yet been definitely agreed upon; or, if it has, it is to effect a connection with the Alabama and Tennessee Rivers Rail Road at Selma. But, however lo cated, it will be a very considerable ap proach to a connection with our Girard aud Mobile Rail Road. If it goes to Sel ma, its deflection from a direct approach to the Girard Road will probably com mence near the western boundary of But ler county, and thence to the location of the Girard & Mobile Rail Road through Pike county is an inconsiderable gap— one that must of necessity be quickly overcome to effect such an important consummation as a direct connection be tween Columbus and Mobile. The action of the authorities of Mobile is, therefore, of much consequence to | the stockholders of the Girard Rail Road, ; and to this city. It ought to have the effect of appreciating very materially the ! stock of the Girard Road, for we assume | that this aid from Mobile will insure the | speedy construction of her “Great North- j ern Rail Road.” Maj. Howard, we be lieve, has already, made the proposition , that the route of the Girard & Mobile Rail Road be adopted for this Mobile en terprise, and that the Northern Rail Road share in the land donation made by Con gress to the former. To reject this offer would be such unwise policy on the part of Mobile that we can hardly anticipate it, though we are not advised as to the present state of the negotiations on this subject. At all events, Mobile has de termined, by this liberal action, to ad vance considerably towards a direct con nection with this city, and her action very materially diminishes the difficulty to be overcome in effecting the long de- I sired union between Mobile and Colum bus.—Enquirer of Thursday. Ex-President Lamar. The Galveston News of the 23d inst., says : Asa soldier, Gen. Lamar was the prcxix chevalier of the army of San Jacinto. The official report of that battle states that bis conduct on the 20th won for him the command of the cavalry of the 21st. His friend, Gen. Rusk, while on a reconnoi. sance, was surrounded by Mexican lan cers. and Lamar .rushed singly to the rescue. The enemy’s line confessed their admiration by a volley as he passed, he reining in his horse and bowing in reply. As President, he met the difficulties of the period with an open, straight-forward : policy. He audited the public debt, and ascertained the amount which it was ne- j cessary to acknowledge, as a matter of | justice, whether the Governmen was ever able to pay it or not. In the Mexican war he won new laurels at Monterey, as a volunteer with Burle- ! son and others, in Wood’s command. H:s last service as U. S. Minister to Central America, showed him in another light—as gentle and soothing to the pride of that inferior people, as he had been fierce and unyielding to the insolence of the Mexican hordes. A meeting was held in Galveston, the 26th, to make some suitable demonstra tion of respect for the memory of Gen. Lamar. The Houston Telegraph, chronicling his deatli, says : He remarked to the physician, who stood by, “Doctor, I feel very queerly ; I believe I am going to die.” The Doctor told him, pleasantly, he thought not ; but the General, a moment after, whirled j about on his feet and fell dead. This is all we have heard of the occurrence. An Abolition Case. From the. Pensacola Observer we learn that a man named Williams created con siderable excitement in that city by ut tering the rankest sort of abolition senti ment the 23d. lie attempted to leave but was pursued and caught. Brought before the Mayor be declined to retract what he had said, when bis Honor and citizens present gave him one hour to leave the city, or receive a coat of tar and feathers. When last seen he was doing some tall walking in advance of a crowd of young men in hot pursuit of him. Tlie African Squadron. The number of vessels belonging to our navy, and kept on the coast of Africa for the suppression of the slave trade, is 6; number of guns, 67; number of men, 1,440. The English squadron on the same du ty amount to 18 vessels; 100 guns and 1,885 men. Rev. W. Fayette Davidson. The Petersburg Express announces the death of this gentleman, which occurred of con.-umption, at his father’s residence in that city,-the 27th iust. The deceased was formerly Principal of the Selma (Alabama) Female Academy and Rector of the Episcopal Church in the same city. We are pleased to learn of the comple tion of the Rail Road connecting Cahaw ba and Marion, Alabama. The road is about 28 miles in length. It also, con nects Cubawba with the Selma and Wood ville R"ad leading into the cane-brake country We congratulate the people of Cahawba on the successful termination of an enterprise so essential to tjgjir pros perity. - Direct Importation. The Richmond Enquirer learns that the Danville Rail lload Company have ordered six thousand tons of railway iron of Messrs. Dunlap & Cos., of Petersburg, agents for a London house, and that the same is to be imported direct to the former city. The editor of the St. Augustine Exam iner, in his issue of Saturday last, says : “Green Peas, Cabbages, Lettuce, Tomat oes, Radishes, Beqts, Onions and Bean 9, of different sorts, are quite plenty ; and with our Christmas dinner to morrow we expect to enjoy Irish Potatoes from onr own garden. ” Death of DeQuiney. This distinguished prose writer died at Edinburgh, on the Bth inst., in the 74th year of his age. He was known by the sobriquet of the “Opium Eater. The Picayune states that Hyde & Good rich, the firm who were burned out recent ly in New Orleans, will in a few days re commence business.’ COLUMBUS, GEOKGIA, JANUARY 3, 1860. Stampede of Students from North ern Medical Colleges. A portion of our readers aie aware of ! the, action of the Southern students in the Philadelphia and -New York Me d; ical Colleges. About 259 have left the ; Colleges in the former city. Jeffer son College having about 73 per cent iof Southern students. The whole num ber in all the Philadelphia Colleges is 1200 of whom one-half are from the South. At a meeting of the students of the lat ter College and others in Philadelphia a resolution was adopted inviting Dr’s* Luckett and McGuire private Tutors to be present. The latter made an address regretting the step that had been taken, but holding it to be their duty under all the circumstances. Several of the professors of the differ ent schools were present, and Professor dwin, of the Jefferson Cos lege, made an earnest and patriotic address with a view to dissuade them from the step they con templated. A meeting of the Southern students of the New \ T ork College was held at the Institution in Fourteenth Street. After considerable discussion and the adoption of resolutions suitable to the occasion fourteen students registered their names as pioneers of those who intend to se cede from the University. It is expected that others will follow. In reply to a message sent by the stu dents the following dispatch was read: New Orleans, Dec., 21, 1859. Messrs. Phillips and J. B. Hinkle, Uni versity Medical College, New York. The Faculty of the New Orleans School of Medicine sincerely regret that you have found yourselves under the necessity of leaving the school to which you are at tached. They will receive you on condi tion that you pay matriculation and grad uation fees. Please acknowledge receipt. E. D. FELNER, Dean. At the Philadelphia meeting letters were read from the Faculties of the Col leges in Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, with assurances of welcome to all who would enter their Colleges. P. S. Since writing the above we learn from papers received by the East ern mail yesterday that the number which withdrew from the Philadelphia Colleges is 2GB, but 125 being Virginians will remain at Richmond ; the balance stop at Charleston, Savannah, Augusta. Atlanta and New Orleans. The Charles ton Mercury says twenty-four are at the Charleston Hotel in that city aud are from that State, Georgia and Alabama.— A dispatch received from New Y r ork by one of the party in Charleston announces that a party of one hundred left the former city the 26th for the South. Supply of Cotton. Iu noticing the annual cotton state ment the London Daily News says the amount sent to England in 1859 was 2,015,000 bales, an increase of over 200,- 000 bales as compared with the same pe riod of 1853. The annual increase of the yield has run from three to four per cent, whilst the price is now only a single far thing per pound above the price of the very abundant year 1850. The writer proceeds to show that ether countries, not England, will reap the greater portion of the benefit arising from an increased supply and adds: The consumption of cotton in Europe, excluding England, is about 448,900,000 pounds, while the consumption of Eng land is not twice as much. Abroad, too, the consumption is increasing very fast. Since 1844 our exports of cotton tbither have increased more than three-fold, viz: from 431,650 cwts to 1,635,790 cwts in 1858. It is, however, plain from these figures that Great Britain, though still the largest consumer of cotton, is by no means the only consumer, and that any increase of the raw material and any reduction in its price will be equally to the advantage of all the cotton manufac turing countries of Europe and the world. A Scathing Rebuke. While Mr. Curry of Alabama was de livering his speech in Congress an inci dent occurred thus related by a corres pondent of the Athens Banner: “Mr. C. said that, he would consider the election of Seward or Chase on the “ir repressible conflict” platform, sufficient cause for resistance on the part of the South even to dissolving the ties that bind her to the Union. Etheridge, of Tenn., the South American by courtesy only, from his place among the blackest of the Abolition horde, interrupted him with the question whether such were the sentiments of the Democratic candidate for Speaker. Mr. C. turning upon him with a look that I interpreted to mean, “ You’ have no right to ask such a question, for whether he does or not, he will never get your vote, or that of any other Black Republican,” and without deigning a ver bal reply, went on with bis speech.” O- — Harper’s Ferry Investigating Com mittee. Washington, Dec. 23. —The Senate Harper’s Ferry Investigating Committee has sent Charles S. Jones, doorkeeper of the Senate, to Texas for Richard ltealf, ex Secretary of the Brown Government It is understood that Thaddeus Hyatt, of New York, President of the National Kan sas Aid Committee, W. F. M. Arny, the general agent of that committee, George S. C. Pomeroy, of Atchinson, Gov. C Robinson, Mar'in F. Conway,-the gener al agent of the Emigrant Aid Society a’ Lawrence, Kansas, Capt. J. Montgomery and Augustus Watties, of Liau county, will be summoned to appear as witnesses before that committee. Newark, Dec. 23. —In response to an extensively signed call, a large and en thusiastic Union meeting was held here this evening. Mayor Bigelow presided. The resolutions were conservative and soundly Democratic. They were unani mously passed. Eloquent addresses were made, deprecating agitation, by Messrs. J. F. Freliughuysen, Wm. K. slacDonald, Garrett D. Wall and other distinguished citizens of New Jersey. A great num ber of letters were received from promi nent public men by the committee, and which they intend to publish. A Hard Hearted Schoolmaster. A German magazine recently announced j the death of a schoolmaster in Suabia, who, for fifty one years, had superintend ed a large institution with old-fasbioned i severity. From an average, inferred by | means of recorded observations, one of the ushers had calculated that, in the course of his exertions, he had given 911,- ! 500 canings, 121,000 floggings, 209,000 custodes, 136,000 tips with the ruler, 10,- I 200 boxes on the ear, and 22,700 tasks by heart It was further calculated that he had made 700 boys stand on peas. 6,- ; 000 kneel on the sharp edge of wood, 5,- 000 wear the fool’s cap, and 1,700 hold the rod. How vast (exclaims the jour nalist) the quantity of human misery in i Aided by a single perverse educator. Slavery iu Nebraska. The Omaha Nebraskian says a bill has been introduced in tbe Nebraska Legis lature just assembled, for the abolition of slavery in the Territory. The prime mover in this measure is D. L. Collier, formerly of Cincinnati. WOLFGANG; OR, THE WRECKER’S BEACON! CHAPTER I. BEFORE THE GALE. The good ship Pathfinder, of New York, and bound to Copenhagen, had en tered the North Sea, having left the Straits of Dover two days behind. The commander ot the ship was a young man, not over eight-and-twenty, and his name was Maurice Lester. He stood by ihe taffrail, gazing off upon the horizon to the eastward, ever and anon raising his hand above his head to feel if there was any wind stirring, and as often casting his eye aloft to see how tbe canvas I huog. As he stood thus his mate ap ; proached, and spoke to him : “What d’ye think of this Capt’n ?” “I think we’re iu for a storm, sir,” j the master replied. “ And I tell you what it is. Griffin,” he added, after sweeping tbe horizon again with his eye, “ when it comes it will be an earnest one. None of your broad Ocean puffs, with nothing but water to hatch wind from; but we’il have it right from some of those places where they know bow to make things blow.” “Then you think we’il have a hard one ?” said Griffin. “Aye,” answered the captain, with almost a shudder, “I feel it iu my j bones.” In tbe meantime, Captain Lester had ! been watching the sea and sky as before, and he fancied that the signs of the storm were growing more and more pal pable every’ momeut. The sun was going down in a thick bank, giving the whole horizon a dull, purplish-red, bloody hue, with here and there spots of a darker tinge, like openings, through the fiery cloud, looking upon a fearful blackness behind. “ Do you see how strangely it looks off there?” said the captain, raising his fin ger towards the point where the sun was setting. “ Aye,” returned Griffin, “ I have been watching those dark places.” And others noticed the same thing, and spoke of it, too. Seven o’clock came and went. Eight o’clock came, and the first watch was set. “ Don’t go below,” said the captain, as the men of the last dog-watch left their stations. “ This calm can’t last a great while. You had better batten down the batches now, while there is nothing else to do ; for I am sure there will be need of having them close before the coming of another day.” The-men bad no thoughts of going be low, for they could see aud feel; and they were not wholly ignorant of what was coming; so they went at work and i-ecured the hatches with thick tarpau lins; and when this was done those who had no particular station collected about the wheel. Another hour passed away— nd another. Ten o’clock came, and still not a breath. The ship lay upon the water like a dead thing, with the ropes, aud blocks, and sails, rattling and flap ping as she was swayed to and fro by the lazy swells of the sea. “ What thoes it mean ?” said Griffin, as tbe boy struck five bells. “ Hark !” said the captain, almost in stautly. “ I guess you’ll soon see. Did you feel that? Ha! and that?” It was a puff of wind, and a light fly ing of spray; or, perhaps, it was a spit of rain. At all events, the puff was felt; and the drops of water fell upon other cheeks than Maurice Lester’s ; and other ears than his heard the dull moaning which came over the dark waters. So other ears heard the roar which follow ed, and other bodies quivered beneath the shock of the storm-giant when he came in his might. Aye—the storm had come. It came with wind and rain, aud with an angry heaving of the sea. It came with a dark ness like Erebus, and with a voice like thunder. The gale continued to increase with fury as the long night passed away. When tbe morning came the scene was one of awful grandeur. The wind was howling with terrific fury; and the broad sea was lashed into huge moun iaius, that foamed, and tumbled, and leaped along over the bosom of the deep, seeming every moment to whelm and en gulph the frail bark that struggled withiu the demon grasp. When Captain Lester bad observed the signs of the morning, he feared that the storm would continue through the day, and so be told bis men. Tbe sky wore a hue of horror, and rain was now driving down, mingling with tbe lashing sea. -At noon it was still worse. At leDgth night shut in again, and not a sign yet of the passing away of the storm ! The frightful howling of the tem pest seemed rather to have increased than abated. The men gathered upon the quarter-deck, clinging for support to the racks and rails—for the life lines swayed so much that they were afraid of them— gathered as near to the light of the bin nacle-lamp as they could, as though even from such feeble beams they might find some comfort. But not all were there. No—not all! Four stout true-hearted men had been swept away by the storm. Near a score were left; but how many shall see the light of another day ? At nine o’clock Captain Lester went below. He took down a chart- of tbe North Sea, and having spread it upon the table, he sat down to examine it. He was thus engaged when Mr. Griffin came down; but he did not look up until he had finished the calculation. “How is it?” the mate asked, as he saw his commander lay down the divi ders. “ I have been making a reckoning, and I find that we have but little more sca room left. The course wc have made since we wore, has been, as near as I can calculate, north-west by-west, so that we must have been driving towards the coast of Not thumberlr.nd. I think we have plenty of room to stand on until midnight; but wc cannot stand on much longer. If the gale does not abate by that time I know not what we shall do.” The captain started up from his chair, and would probably have walked across the cabin, but at that moment a heavy sea caught the sb.p, and gave her a pitch forward, which caused him to catch his seat as quick as possible. As soon as the flood had gone from the deck, and the vessel had struggled up from the shock, he looked into his companion’s face, and I said, in a voice made tremulous by deep- I er emotion than he had before mani fested: “Griffin, I have something upon my mind more than you know ; and I am anxious to communicate it, too. I must tell it now, for I have a strange forebo ing of coming ill. Something is to happen that will bear great calamity to some of us. I am not croaking—l am only reading what the Unseen has written in my soul However, you shall hear my story. You have heard that my parents were both lost at sea?” “Yes,” said tbe mate. “And perhaps you knew that they were lost in this sea ?” “ I have heard so, sir.” “Aye—so it was. I was a boy theD. They were on their way to Copenhagen, as we should be now. My father com manded the ship—she was called the “ Clara Jane.” She was named for my mother; and she was a staunch, noble craft. I was at school then, iu Troy ; and when I knew that my parents were dead I was well nigh dead with grief. I fan cied then, in my first hours of orphanage, that my heart would break ; aud, I think such would have been tbe case if they had kept me at school. But some of those who cared for me came to see me, and it was finally arranged that I should go to sea. And I prospered—prospered so well that, when I was twenty years old, they gave me command of a ship. “ The man who owned the ship which I first commanded was named Thornton. He had a daughter named Carrie —one of the sweetest, purest, and loveliest crea tures that ever graced this poor life of earth. She was four years younger than myself; but even when I first knew her — and she was Dot more than fourteen—she was a woman in intellect and grace, though a child in simplicity of love and confidence. Mr. Thornton did not object to my suit, so I loved her with all my soul, and was blessed to know that she loved me in return. It had been arrang ed that we should be married when she was twenty years old, —that had been our plan for more than two years, Mr. Thorn ton having set the bounds himself. It lacked two months of tbe time, and I had arranged to remain at home until we were married. But Thornton had a heavy ship freighted for Copenhagen, and her cap tain was dying. He could find no one to take his place but me, and be asked me to go. I could not refuse ; but I asked that I should be married first. Mr. Thorn ton shook his head, and said no. But lie had another plan which he said would be better. He had been planning to visit Copenhagen, where he had two brothers in business—they were in company with him—and he said that he would take the next ship, and bring Carrie out with him, and we should be married there. I finally consented to take out tbe new ship, and Mr. Thornton, with his daughter, was ot meet me in Copenhagen, and there tfre were to be married, and all three come home together. The evening before I sailed I spent with Carrie, and when 1 left her I felt that I was leaving my very life. “ Well,” continued Lester wiping his eyes, “ I went to I waited a month—then I heard that the Ameri can ship, ‘ White Fawn ,’ with William Thornton and daughter on board, had touched at Dover, and that all were safe and well whep she left. I waited anoth er week, and then I crossed over to Hamburg; but I could learn nothing there. Next I went to London, and there I learned enough to assure me that the ship was lost! On the second day after she left Dover a severe storm had arisen, and several vessels had been reported lost. I sent my ship home in charge of the mate, and spent four months in searching after the lost ones; but 1 could gain no trace of them. Not even a piece of the wreck could I find—not a mark of the ship nor of one of its crew! I came home with a sad and heavy heart.” Maurice Lester stopped a few moments, and bowed his head upon his hands, for his feelings had almost overcome him. In a little while, however, he looked up again, and added, in a touching tone: “ Ah, my dear friend, you do not know what I have suffered—tongue cannot tell it, nor can pen write it. The blow did break my heart—broke it in the rending of itstenderest cords, and in tbe crushing of all its earthly hopes !—Do you believe in dreams ?” The mate started, not so much at the character of the question, as from the sudden manner in which it was put. “ Well,” said Lester, in a lower tone, “ I have had a dream repeated many times but never has it come to me so di rectly and so vividly as within the past three or four days. Carrie Thornton is xiotdead! I know she is not!—she has ap peared to me repeatedly in a dream, and calls upon me to save her! To-night, as I stood all alone by the mizzen rigging, trying to peer out into the thick gloom, I heard her voice as plainly as you now hear mine, and she called cut for me to save her. Os course what followed was mere fancy, though even that affected me much : ,1 thought I saw her, standing not far off, upon a huge sea, with her arms stretched imploringly towards me—saw her then, with my eyes open, as I have often seen her in my sleeping dream ! —” At this point the captain was cut short in his speech by the cry of “ Light ho !” from the deck. They hurried up and found the men crowding forward. “ What is it?” Lester asked. “I think it is a light, sir,” replied Parker. “Here, sir,—just stand here.— Now turn your eye about four points upon the larboard bow. —Wait, now, till she rises— Ha —there !—there ?—See !—Did you see it, sir ?” Yes—he had seen it; and he knew it must, be a light upon tbe shore: but it w T as a great way off. He watched until he had seen it several times, and then he remarked to his mate that it must be a light-house. The light was bold and dis tinct, and evidently at a considerable height above the level of the sea; for, had it not been so, it could not have been seen at that distance. After a short con sultation, during which reference was held to the chart ot the Northumberland coast, it was decided that this light must be upon Dorton Point. To the north of Dorton, as the captain knew from per sonal experience, as well as from the chart, there was a snug harbor, of easy entrance. These thiDgs were settled. As soon as it had been determined where the light was, Captain Lester made all possible baste to determine his course of action. Had the thing beeu practica ble, he would have laid his ship to; but that thing could not be done. No one even gave it a serious thought. So it was determined that the ship should stand on, at least until something further was dis covered. At half-past twelve the gale had mod erated considerably. The light was now to be seen plainly whenever the ship rose, and the captain and his officers felt sure that they were right in all their cal culations. “At all events,” said the former, “we have no choice but to stand on, at least ” He was interrupted by a cry from the bows that made every soul start with hor ror: “Breakers! Breakers!” Captain Lester leaped forward, and in a very few moments was satisfied that the warning had not been a false one ; for be could not only bear tbe awful roar of the breaking seas, but be fancied that he could see the gleaming of the white foam as it flew high in the air. As quickly as possible the topsail was taken off, and the anchors cut loose. The ponderous grnpplings pluuged into the hissing sea, and the iron catdes were spun through the hawse-holes like lightning. Snap went the starboard chain ; and in a mo ment more a shock was felt as the lar board anchor found bottom ; but it could not hold. The cable parted as though it had been a hempen string, and on swept the devoted ship. “In Heaven’s name,” gasped Griffin, “what does this mean? See! The light is still burning a3 brightly as ever—at least a league away—and yet here are the rocks directly under our bows. What can it mean ?” Maurice Lester did not answer ; but an old, weather beaten sailor, who stood at the wheel, and who had looked a thous and dangers in the face, answered for him: “It’s a Wrecker’s Beacon ! I’ve seen such things afore. There ain’t no use in firin’ the gun, sir. That light was put there to lead poor Jack to his death that the coast-sharks might pick his bones!” “Breakers! Rocks!— On the star board boic! -No! —on the larboard! —Port!” But it was too late for mortal help. The ship had met her doom. She went upon the rocks with a crash that sounded high above tbe roar of the elements. CHAPTER 11. WOLFGANG. Maurice Le9ter was near the starboard gangway when the ship struck having [NUMBER 38. started aft to look to the helm. The shock threw hiiu upon hi* back, and he tried to get up ; but ere he could regain his feet the flood of mad waters came, surging over the bark, and he was thrown —ho knew’ not where. He only knew that the flood came—that it caught him in its giant grasp—that it hurled him as the gale hurls a feather —that his head was hurt—that his body was tossed and bruised—and then the lamp ot liis con sciousness went out. When he came to himself it was daylight, anl the rays of the sun were beaming above him. At first he did not attempt to move, any further than simply io assure himself that he was really alive and sensible; but sought to recall the events of the past, which he did, very clearly, up to the time when his ship struck upon the rocks, —he could go no farther. After this he raised himself upon his elbow and tried to gaze about him lie found him self upon a bed of sand, between two im mense rocks. lie had been landed there I in that deep nook, and the tide had gone ; out and left him. In a little while be rose to his feet, and managed to ciawl up, by the aid of a stranded spar, over a low part of one of the rocks. After seeiug all that was to be observ ed from this point, he moved on towards where he thought he should soonest find an open beach, for he felt sick, and he wished to find help as soou as possi ble. After toiling over slippery, slimy rocks, and cruel, tearing crags, until his clothing was all torn, and his flesh bruis ed and lacerated, he finally reached an open space among the rocks, where many pieces of the wreck had been lodged, and where he found the bodies of three of his men. He hastened to the spot where they lay—two of them being clasped in each other’s arms—but he found no signs of life. With a sad, heavy heart, Lester passed on, and presently he fouud two more dead ones, and one of them was David Griffin, his chief mate. He kneeled down by the officer’s side, and raised the head; but it was cold and lifeless and the skull was broken ! Gently he laid it back upon the sand, and then moved on again. And he saw more dead men also! Could it be possible that he had been the only one left alive ? 11a!—wait—what is this ? It moves — it has life! Captain Lester hurried forward, as fast as his feeble strength would permit, and found two men lying by the side of a heavy spar. One of them was dead: but the other gazed up into his commander's face, and stretched forth his hands as I though he would ask for mercy. His > name was Dick Mangle, and he had been one of the best seamen on board the ! ship. “Poor Dick !” said Lester, kneeling by j his side and lifting his head. “Are you ! badly hurt?” “They’ve done it for us!” the sail- ; or answered, in a weakening voice “They’ve killed Tom. Ain’t ho dead ?” It was the body of stout Tom Bricket that lay close by, and when the captain had made himself sure that there was no particle of life in it, he reported the same to Dick. “But,” he added, “what do you mean ? Who has done you harm ?” “Haven’t you seen ’em ?” the man asked, struggling for breath. “Seen whom? What do you mean?” ! demanded Lester, eagerly. Dick started up to his elbow, and gazed around but be seemed to find nothing for which he was looking and he sank back again. Had he not made this effort he might have spoken further, but the act of rising had exhausted Him, and the last grain of strength was leaving him. “What do you mean ?” cried Lester, as he saw that the poor fellow was sink ing. “Has any body harmed you ?” Dick managed to raise his hand to his head—to a point above the left ear—and, as he did so, he whispered— “ Look out —they asked for the capt’n. That’s where they struck!” He tried to speak further, but his voice failed him. What could this mean ? Maurice Les ter started to bis feet and gazed around. Wlio had killed his men? The captain was disturbed in his med itation by the sound of voices not far off, and upon turning be beheld four men coming up from the water. He who came in advance was a tall, muscular man; with a gaunt, heavy frame; some where about fifty or fifty-five years of age; and habited in a garb of blue cloth, cut into a frock, or shirt, which was se cured at the waist by a broad pistol belt. Maurice Lester was startled when he beheld the stalwart leader and his three ruffianly companions; and, considering all the circumstances, it is no wonder that he was startled. However, he had not much opportunity for reflection, for, by the time he had fairly made out the party, they were upon him. “Hallo,” the leader cried, as he saw our hero, “here we have another.” And, as he came up, he added: “And I guess we’ve found a live one, too, —one that knows something—Say—who are ye?” This last sentence was addressed to Maurice, who quickly answered: •‘My name is Lester. And now, to be fair, what is your name ?” “Well —I guess you’ve heard it before. Men call me Ryan Wolfgang.” “Wolfgang!” repeated Lester, with a start “ Yes. That is my name.” Then Wolfgang was not a myth after all. That mysterious wrecker, whose name was a source of terror to honest sailors, was a being of flesh and blood, like other men. Maurice gazed upon him with wonder ; and, as he gazed, he felt that he looked upon a fiend incarnate. — lie had often heard of the pirate wrecker, and so dark and mystic had been the tales which the North Sea sailors had told, that he had been inclined to believe that the whole theme was a fabrication. Now, however, he had no more doubt, for the man before him looked as dark and bloody as were any of the pictures he had heard drawn of him upon the fore castle. But our hero was not allowed much time for reflection. Wolfgang plied him with questions, to all of wliicE Lester gave straightforward answers ; well know ing that evasion would serve no practical purpose, and hoping by his frankness to propitiate the merciless fiend in whose unrestrained power he knew himself to be. When the wrecker chief had elicited all the information he could, and learned with what a rich cargo the vessel was freighted, and that she had $40,000 in specie on board, he smiled grimly, and remarked to one of bis confederates that she would perhaps be a richer prize even than the White Fawn had been a few years before. The mention of the name of the ill-fated ship in which Carrie Thornton and her father had been lost, gave Mau rice Lester such a shock that he nearly fell to the earth. He grew deadly pale, and his frame quivered convulsively. “What’s the matter?” said Wolfgang, j “You don’t seem to have much strength left!—Bring him along, boys, where we can doctor him.” The sinister glance which accompanied this last remark, and the peculiar em phasis laid upon the word “ doctor struck | a chill to our hero’s heart. But he could not give his own safety much thought, while he was partly forced and partly carried along after Wolfgang, who strode rapidly on for nearly half an hour. He could think only of the White Favm that had been wrecked on that coast, and of his beloved Carrie who had, perhaps, in company with those same men, trod the samepathhe was now treading. What bad been her fate ? Had she been murdered i by these wretches, or reserved for some more deplorable doom ? These thoughts ’ filled him with unutterable agony. Wolfgang had now drawn near the water’s edge; and soon coming to the mouth of a cave he entereJ it, followed by the three ruifiaus who had charge of our hero. The bottom of tbecave sloped upward from its entrance for some dis tance, and then became almost level. The captive (for such Maurice Lester now felt himself to be) frequently hit his feet against what he thought, with a chill of , horror, were human bones strewn around the cavern, but he could not clearly make ’ them out in the dim light. He also no ticed that the bottom of the cave was very ! wet, as though it had recently been cov | ered with water. The wrecker chieftain ! stopped, at last, near what seemed the ’ end of the cave, and making a sign to his followers, they clapped manacles on the wrists and Inkles of Maurice before he had time to note their intention. | “Now,. Captain Lester,” said Wolfgang, “you must remain in this place for a short season. You are perfectly safe here. - —Silence! Say not a word! If you at tempt to leave this spot, you will be slain the moment you set foot outside the cave.” Thus speaking, the chieftain and his followers silently but rapidly withdrew, leaving Maurice nearly stupefied with as tonishment. As they passed from the j mouth of the cave, tbeir feet were wet ;by the rising waves. The tide was fast ; coming in. After a short time, the captive looked | about him with eyes somewhat accus i tomed to the dim light, and became sat -1 isfied that what he had supposed to be human bones were really such. There were many of them. And moving among them were huge rats, seeking for prey. The top of the cavern, in some places, was but a few feet above his head, and iu one place he discovered a small aper ture, through which a faint light strug gled, and on going underneath it, he thought he smelt the odor of vegetation and flowers. On turning, from the contemplation of this aperture, towards the mouth of the cave, Captain Lester observed, with alarm, that the water was creeping up the sloping bottom. What if it should fill the cavern ? Ah ! now he could account for the presence there of those human bones ! They were the sad memorials of other hapless prisoners who had been left in that cave to perish by drouning ! Slowly but surely the waters crept along. The vermin fled before them to the elevated spot on which Maurice stood. Slowly following, the incoming water at length reached his feet! At the end of the cave, within a few feet of the wall, and underneath the aperture before spoken of, was a large piece of rock, some four l'cet high, that might have fallen from above. To this Maurice hastened as quickly as his man acles would permit. After some exertion i he succeeded in climbing to the top of it, and stood erect, his head within a few inches of the roof of the cavern. But he was not allowed to occupy this retreat alone. As the water began to circle round its base, the rats also sought refuge on it in great numbers, and in I vain did Maurice try to dislodgo them with his manacled feet. Soon (as it seemed to the captive) the i water came rippling over top of the rock. | lie felt the moisture upon his feet. And j still it rose—slowly but relentlessly it j rose higher—higher; and as it rose, the j rats climbed up his limbs for safety. It was in vain that he brushed them off with his fettered hands. They instantly re turned. They clambered up his back— to his shoulders—over the back of his neck—to the crown of liis head; their j clammy bodies striking a chill tohisvery j heart. And still higher the waters rose, and more thickly the foul vermin clustered | upon the devoted captive’s shoulders and i head, as their only places of safety. Driven frantic at last by the horrors of his situation, he was about to plunge into the surging tide and seek a watery grave, when his attention was arrested by the tread of rapid footsteps near the aper ture above bis head, and the sound of a harsh masculine voice, almost instantly followed by a noise as of a struggle, and a piercing shriek which thrilled Maurice Lester to the very soul. He could not be mistaken : it was Carrie’s voice. Again he heard it, but now in tones of entreaty. Oh, it was her voice. She was not dead ! She lived and was near him! Gather ing all his strength he shouted, “Carrie! Carrie! Carrie!” A dead silence followed, broken only by the fearful murmurs of the still rising waters, and the splash of the rats as they fell from the wretched captive’s head and shoulders, only to return again, in their fierce struggles for a perch of safety from the advancing tide, which had now near ly reached our hero’s shoulders. The above is all of this story that will be published in our columns. We give this as a sample. The continuation of it . from where it leaves off here can be found I only in the New York Ledger, the great i family paper, to which the most popular writers in the country contribute, and which is for sale at all the stores through out the city and country, where papers are sold. Remember and ask for the New York Ledger of January 7, and in it you will find the continuation of the story from where it leaves off here. If you cannot get a copy at any book store, the publisher of the Ledger will mail you a copy if you will send him five cents in a letter. The Ledger is mailed to subscribers at $2 a year, or two copies for $3. Address your letters to Robert Bonner, publisher, 48 Ann street, New York. It is the hand somest and best family paper in the country, elegantly illustrated, and char acterized by a high moral tone. Its present circulation is over four hundred thousand copies, which is the best evi dence we can give of its merits. Letter from Gov. Packer to Gov. Wise. The following is the telegraphic res | ponse of Gov. Packer, of Pennsylvania, ■ to the letter addressed by Gov. Wise to the President of the United States, and to , the Governors of Maryland, Ohio and Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania Executive Ciiambeb, l . j Harrisburg, Pa., Dec.l, 1859. / Your letter of the 25th, having been i mis-sent to Harrisonburg, Va., was not | received until this morning. Os all the desperadoes to whom you refer, not a man, so far a3 I can learn, was a citizen of Pennsylvania; nor was there rendezvous, which ,you say, was “unobstructive by i guard or otherwise,” in this State, but in i Maryland or Virginia. In relation to them, ; Pennsylvania has done her duty. Vir ginia has no right to anticipate that she will not do so in the future. The infor . mation you have received iu regard to a conspiracy to rescue John Brown will, : undoubtedly, be found in the sequel ut , terly and entirely without foundation, so , far as Pennsylvania is concerned. Nor will we permit any portion of our terri tory, along our borders or elsewhero, to be made a depot, a rendezvous, or a re i fpge for “lawless desperadoes” from oth , er States, who may seek to make war up on our Southern neighbors. When that contingency shall happen, the constitu i tional and confederate duty of Pennsyl -1 vania shall be performed, and, under all , circumstances, she will take care to see that her honor is fully vindicated. WM. F. PACKER. Remarkable Visitation. The Staunton Spectator gives the fol lowing statement of a deep affliction vis ited upon a family : Os the many fam ilies in this couuty who have furnished victims to the malignant Bore throat which is prevailing in the Valley and else where, none perhaps exhibit such a re cord of mortality as that of Mr. Richard Sly, of Clay Forge, a mile from W aynes boro’. A few weeks ago Mr. Sly had eight happy and ruddy faced children, and now only one survives. Asa corres pondent who communicates the fact to us says, grief like this can be assuaged only “by the light that comes from heaven.” * . We are under obligation to Peterson Thweatt, Esq., the obliging and efficient Comptroller General of Georgia, for a neat arfd complete copy of his Annual Report to the Governor.
