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shastuing . Hod, anf 0 FRPRRSO Jjudgment; as it the blood-ransomed soul were wortliess; the doetring of immor- ~ tality a pagan fable, ‘and heaven and . hell mere chimeras of insane religioejatg. The cternal .;gouperismbﬂgthg ~damned, is not balf so terrible to him as presont want; and ‘the imperishable inheritance of the blessed, not half so attractive as the sheen of hissilver, and the glitter of his goid. He should be christened Balaam, and surnamed Judas; for a little shining dust would tempt him to curse the Israel of God, und-sell the God of Tsrael; while a few dollars, or 2 few dimes is sufficient in- . ducement for him to barteraway his own blood-redeemed immortality ! =~ . - Such is the rum-geller, and such is “his work, He is the enemy of our interests, in time; and the destroyer of out bopes for eternity. He earries the' futal box of Pandora; and wherever he - goes, lots out the winged ruin, multi- 1 form and fierce, among the children of wen. Pestilence hreathes from his lipsl ~and desolation lingers on his footsteps. ; ?’li; person is ‘an embodied eurse; {A)'is' pipsence a withering ‘sivoceo; the at ’ mosphere i which he moves, the very. Jrelude of hell. Peace flieg at his approach, and despair triumphs in his train. DBrothers and . sisters, parents - and children, husbands and wives, and neighbors, lovers and friends, mourn ~ with immitigable anguish, over: his in-| numerable victims. lle has dog mil- | lions of graves, tolled miliions of knells enveloped millions of our race in a. - moonless and starless night. - Mauy a Jacob has he bereft .of his Joseph and his Benjamin, bringing down the geny - hair of the patriarch, with sorrow to “the grave, and obscuring ‘thel sunny Vopes of gifted and aspiring youth, with the blackness of darkness forever. Look abroad over the carth, and what do you behold 7 - Fearts czushed and bleeding; honest luborers stripped of #their last hard-earned -dollur; widows - and orphans tarned out, pennyless, and | shelterless, upon the ecold charities of -the world; the virtious and respectable despoiled of a stainless reputation, and covered with a cloud of infamy; and mun, hy the wyriad, wearing the intage ot his God, murdere! soul and body, on the high road to immortality! . Cast Jour eyes over this reeking--Aceldawa; | and as you behold, ence moce let me “walsper—nay, let me speukin. a tone' that shall wake the echoes.of the mountsins—All this is the work of the rum_-l weller! e ' o

- The ruwnieller hag a variety of pleas l in extenuatibn, or vindication of his Dusiness. * Lot us look at a few. specimens of his lozie. g - “T was bred to . the business.” So ~ pleads the pickpocket, the highwayman, the gambler, the burglar, and the pirate. If tho plea is goed For you: It i equally good for them. . . %I must provide for my family.”— Bay is the manner of no conscquence? Will you do evil, that good may come, ‘and justify theweans by the end?— +Will you steal to clothe your wife, and feed your children with blood ? - Mlf Ido not sell, somebody else will.” But if {t would be wrong in ancther, it i 3 wrong in you. Another’s sin is -no justification of yours. You may net ~commit a erime, cven to prevent anoth- ¢ from eommittimg -it. “What! = MayI steal a horse hecause another will if I - do not? May I forge a note, because another: wilLLif I do not? May I fire - a dwelling, becanse another will, if I do not? » May I kill my neighbor, beeauso ~another willif [ donot? = - . AT am in'a freo country, and you shall not abride my liberty.” Bt your free- . dowm is no license to pick™ my pocket, .~ or cut my throat; and if you do se the " law will abridge both your liberty and _your life. You have no right to use your own property for tle injury -of others. You mayinot i!i'c;xéft‘inusly blast | othe ponderous rock, though it lic within your own ficld, You maynot fell a tree upon your neighbor's fence, thongle it stand Th_your own forest. XYou may ‘notgmove X natural embankment, and | turn a stream upon another’s farm, tho . you operate catirely upon your -own premises. }nd do you imaging, that you have n¥yight to administer poison forrefreshment, and “seatter fire-brands, - arrowdPand death around you?” The law protcctsmy business the law sanctiohs iy trade; lam licensed ae~sording to law. What law? The great principles of all law are against it “—and wero thers no- other, there iy a. ~ law in your constiones: which cons ~demns it 'lf you have nst obliterated . that God's Swyiting by yont sin.. What is thedesign cf Jaw? The protection - ofour WOP?"FY:,@?*@l‘ﬁﬂ@ﬁﬁ&@?ﬁﬂaﬁg . _piness, anj ourlives, But against alll - thesc have you conspired, andare waging the dendligst' warfire. Are yom: _ not therefore, ﬁﬁhhﬂg against the law? . Why are mad-dogs, gan-powder, nns ~ wholesome provisions, and infections dsseasoy siibjoct 30 the vigilam sorat: - my of thelaw? Why bave we speeific . enactments in regard “to the sale and - usa of poisons? - Why is a man punigh- - ablefor P‘t’mmﬁ'ﬁ tntain or stream; o oarelessly aduinistéting a porsigions ~ drug to a patient? ~ Awd does notfyour husiness came within this eatogory?— - Sanctioned bylaw? = Authorized by li~eensal. What will either law or license -o, nben Gol ke ni G;évm%o&? Can those 'who framed - thelaw, ot signed the h&nﬁ”w“%i chetes g 0 and JE Biptaldaiiies sivaapield yop bt 8 L ety gﬁa ind with his buggard Swifo and beaa3 *a&;;“ﬁ‘l‘i‘.”'ﬁ ecn okga B et e

you remember me?” gaid a rum-seller toadyivgdrunkard. “O yes!” was the teply ; “I can never forget you !it was at your bar 1 bought my ruin! Tshall remember youto all eternity! Ah if be ‘bad a particle of eonseicnee left, how terribly must the avenger have lashed ‘the murderer! - Who are théy that have liecnsed yon to vend damnation by the gill? If sent to hell with you, will their preschce mitigate ,iyou‘r” woe! Al your liecense may do well enough ina human court; but-will not answer at the bar of God. The fires of the eternal Taw will turn it quickly to tinder, and scathe, the temerity that presenfs it there. Go and get your instrment ratified from the throne of Heaven! Suspend your infamous traffie, till the mysterions hand that wrote upon Belshazzar’s palace wall ghall inscribe a license for you, in apropriate fire-charac-ters, upon every cask in your celler, and every bottle in ‘your barl .1

1 HE REGISTER e e - LIGONIER, JULY 8, 1858. :

Republican State Ticket. , FOR SUPREME JUDGES. tst Dis—~HORACE P. BIDDLE, of Cass; 2. —ABRAM W HENDRICKS, Jeflerson 3—SIMON YANDES, f Marion: = {th—WAl D. GRISWOLD; of Vigo. 0 'ATTORNEY GENERAL: - AWILLIAM T. OTTO, of Floyd; _ TREASURER OF STATE, . JOHN L. HARPER, of St. Joseph. L AUDITOR OFBTATE, . ' ALBERT LANGE, of Vigo. . BECRETARY OF STATE, WILLIAM A. PBELLE, of Randolph SUPERINTENDENT PUBLIGTNSTRUCTION JOHN YOUNG, of Marion. |

. Congressional Conventior, -'Fhe Republican Co.uyention to nominaté a ‘eandidate to represent the tenth Congressional District in the next Congress, will meet at Kendalville, Noble Co.on Thursday the 12th day of*August next, at' 10 o’clock; A: M, All' who are willing to unite in the overthrow of the present corrupt Administration of the general government are cordiaily invited to attend and parBgpßte, - e £ ; q@y‘ order,of the Central Committed, - B. W. Oaxrey, Chairman. ~ Fort Wayne, Jane 29, 18 8. : : ’;,‘,:: ‘;"l.r-.-‘——-—w;'biﬂ...b‘it--;-d-—.-—,—-;—"q 5 : - Cur Paper —County —its Interest. There are some, we know not'how many, who thizk that a public press should only advocate and - urge one branch of the -numerous’ subjects, which take hold G( man’s destiny in hig present state of being.” i

- For instance, it is'held that if you ‘adopt the principles of an prganization, called a party—that you must be blind to everything else but the interest of that party—that no fairness or candor should allow you to perceive any-thing good in the opposite party, although ‘siggﬁ good might exist. But on the contrary you are to class good and bad together in one indiseriminate denuns S e Eptos

In this one id‘éa fierce contoest, you are to pass every other interest hy,and may wreck' every other consideration but that of party prineiples: <~

This, in the judgment 'of many, is the true mission of" a"]’)ub_l_'ic(pmyss', and very many, too many are conducted upon just such-aprogramme. - . | - This is why so much evil exists in our body politié—tliis is why men of the very same interests “do uot see ‘aye to eye’ Party presses and party leaders justity with vehemenece what is wrong in themselves, and with just the ‘same vehemence, misrepresent and defame what isreally right in their opponents.

. They nse sophistry and prevarication ] and falsehood to ac complish. f}}i b w; docs not inpedo them auy. o their course: ‘This s the principle “wpon which a great many papers are condues: ted,and many think- they are the. modals upon which the rest should bo .If .- thiq end is:thg,f;)_hj‘gc!; of the ‘lever’ ﬂ{ﬂf moves the world, then ils discoverers

‘misapprehended -its mission. . Humble. a 3 wé may be, this abuso of the press. ‘does not apply tiself to our convictions and judgment—but we look upon it as a eriminal violation of ail lasrs.of honar; decency-and wight . . o *~ Btrong in the convietion ' that our position is right, and ‘that the present. patty in power is-one of the most cor-. rupt as well as most Jangerous to true. ‘Deuigeracy, we shalloppose ‘it with an: houest zeal and effort. But'to do this we shall 7ot copsider it necdssaty to msepreens then i tho e, o deunvarnished, if they will only let.if bo believed, is comvincingenough-tonn | b i, ot i else that surrounds our pathway, and | ihot takes hold of but every day inter-|

have a lively intercat {u the welfare cf our town and ecunty: WWho would not like 15 s¢o our county o long hisKO R ey , sing and abyeword” fake its place, in aredit and feputation~with the other prominent plices'of the country. We own to this pride—that of wishing to see this one the most prosperous county in the State. And why may we not be? -We have some of the most fertile land in the ‘west; some of the best natural advantages; streams of water sufficient for many mills and manufactories; a direct east and west railroad running throughout the whole length of the county, and another one located thro® from north to south. ©

- With these and other advantages fa~l voring our develdpment, we have- felt like making ééﬁ'ﬁce consistent to 1; :‘adv_a'hce in ax'g'y"wax- the bg&ﬂinterests} of the eounty. Thishas been perhaps : f.he §tmwﬁ§emﬁon in iabqﬁngi to found this press. . i 4 Thus while we shail be earnest and déecided tipon national questions, we. shall be sadly derilect:vi_'t“ﬁ'e“ sacrifice the interests of the county, of society and community to ensure political success.. Wo deny the proposition that gross immoratity and geod Repuhlican-. ism, or good Dewocracy can go togeth-. ‘er. Believing that public violations of | good order are sadly détrimental to all the political and social interests of o~ ciety, we believe that all good men’ should frown down upon them, Where the public mor:ﬂs of a pcdplei”are'not‘ cared for;hwncgdw for zr:-l}eaLs'-thy growth of any o¥e redeeming prinCiple", beit political or othél‘wige;:i- ‘Ehen f as a foundation of ‘everything elte val- ’ uable to be hoped for, you must have a'| decent state of worals—without it cv- | erything else is valveless.” This has been the inciting reflection whichhns,! caused us to touch npon the moral sub- | jeets which we have heretofore done. | We know of the bitter feelings which have‘s‘o lately been indivated hy those who felt the _apl;)l‘irczlvt'ion ‘of these sub~ jeets to themsefes. - : e

Now far be it from us.to wish ‘to cause an unnecessary pang—but when the point is reached, that moral subjects are not allowed to b nniced, br discus--Bed, then the history ‘of the dark ages hos a second time began. ‘The very upheaying and oppd}%oxls ‘to them when roferred to, showk hore cmphitically than pen can cxp‘}qss ity the ab's'ol'ufc'neces;}sit;y of thei disgussion and application. . To_those who ealise tfie difference between a gobﬁga_q@'bﬁ;hfe of public morals, -there eani¥, ons be, found who will tell you that*therg dre too many adulations heaped ué@ﬂg& ,fedéeqiingtraitg which make "so¢ ty 'int»,c]ligeht}fz;ﬁd hanorabley . oro

~ Whenever we have decmed it nccessary to encoyirage a given course, or to discourage the opposite, we have done it, becausé we thought the public intet--688 vegniredabol s tu T oA _ That we shAl never errin. judgment, we should be worse than infatuated. to believe, but they shall be the errors of the bead, and not the intention, we solemply affam. 0 o

" As a public agent, we would only war a_gaii-n’st? those things which ‘War aga’rﬁstﬁi@ public interest,” welfare and reputation, nor would we in this con= nection affilliate with the mere scandal of l;he day,',%hizh‘aisgfa‘éés_ all who en.gbbrigge ;j@-%but’ '*f‘hly such realities which really {i;ﬁ'ect the public character.

A Chango 1 fire-"Btichort Co. Times “"'We see by the last Times; that Judge :ﬁétealfe has i‘etii?edlfmm- the editorship of 'its columns;=—his professional business réquiting a more undivided share of his atiention. * 108 not too much to sty of Judge M. that he has filed the place be hae just yacated with credit and ability. Tle spirit with whioh he i etitten; bas beon -?\tbat positive eneigstio character which we sbould: forts of our publie men. . There is not: anything that ig, is.cone ‘with half a heart and half'a %‘ﬁﬂ}hn is any more than half dove,There js nothing wore hopeful mw« to see-mien conscious of restitude and right, entor Vklggﬂ%étokﬂﬁhthﬂt%ewholeso,ﬁlm

IR T Py N S e | S "“ : 4 ~“Hon. “E. W. H. Ellis -sucoseds. Judge M. in the editorship of “the Times. He'is known very extensively a 8 angable ‘writer, and’ will -no doubt,: contius 1o ke tho Timos oneof the " ¥@.The. Locxport Adveriser says. ekl T S T T o R e QIR e e SR Sewitl oiuiien S i ot 00l and otherwise strengthening the Sus. ponsion Bridge us Niggarn Kallisu pis-

. DOUGLAS PORTRAYED. _ A Clunge Gym thogld Tuns. _ Our readers will well remember How toa great extent, S. A. Douglas has been the idol of his party. He has becn, and is a man-of considerable talent, and whenever that talent has been used, as 1t very often hagbeen, in bitter invective coupled with - extravagant misrepresentations -of his' opposers iu politics, then hag the whole Democratic press shouted glorious peans of praise to their hero. No words in the English language were too expressive, too extravagant to express their admiration of thetr idol. ! 3

- But now, how bas the tune cLanged. Mr Douglas, for reasons, thit it is not necessary now to explain, has taken the liberty to express an opinion different in some respeets from that promulgated by (he! Adiminisifation at Wishington. And-what is the result? - Bimply this. . The song about Douglas is of a different nature, subject and charac: ter. R AT S SR

As_ a specimen of this latter part we: insert the extractbelow from the Na—tional Unicn. (Democratic paper.) By the extract it will be ‘se‘en"that'l Mr Douglass is nat charged with sud’.denlyf‘éhanging ‘his character-and assuming % hew : ogﬁé;;no this is __‘,l-tis“'se.t.-tled organized nature—therefore” this picture drawn. of rhi_bllu‘ in the Union ‘was true of him in years zoue by—all of the time when they were writing all of the fulsome adulations’ of him that they were capable of indifing, - Now let us sec from the following extract, how these men own ‘that they have been for years most extravagantly gloritying a man who they now say was and is' of the character portrayed by | them in the extract below. The last eipx=é§§iox'i ig we belicve always takcnl to. be the truest. Theréfore we bid our: readers to notice the kind of a man which “they in thicir latest conibssl'bn.{ s_ﬁ-y' “their' f(')\'l:_ﬁer—‘ champion: was—the i man who they have always delighted to honor. f R sy s i i ]

"% Pope said, of Lord Bacon,” that ge was the ‘gisest and the meancst of mankind.” = We are glad to say we Enow of but one wmodern charucter that approaches a realization of this celebra"tc(f paradox. Heis a puissant and prominent politician, whose acknowledzed tact & talent, tho’ far too limited toconstittute him the ‘wisest of mankind,” and united ~to certain woral qualities which have ulready achieved for him a distinguished pre-eminence as one of the ‘meanest.” While his | abilities we are free to confess have been somewhat

P}ver’-rate‘ahy foolish followers we wust insist as an impartial tribute to the k } gous meny that his b}tgefest, erigniey have hifherto failed to do'jus“Tirg %o iihf,,eigx_‘&.‘érdina‘ry hittleness of Spi g"’n‘ggjisét with ‘which this distip@aighing trait in his character has Dt&u' treated scems to have seriously offended - him, if we may judge from “his ‘recent strenuvous “efforts to bring that trait in all its ‘nagural exuberarnice prominently before the publie. . Great men generally have grest faults, often great foibles, but seldom any low, petty or mean instincts. Stch unique foils to brilliant talent are reserved to the favored few. Qur.Sen‘ator is one of these rare and refreshing phenomena. Proud of being a leader, ‘he has not pride enough to be honest. . Ambitious of being President, he has not ambition enoughi to be honor‘able. ~ Arrogant as a Pharisee; he fwill stoop to the humiliation of untruth.— A distinguished Senator, he has not the dignity of an ordinary Alderman.. Generous to promise, firm never to perform, he dewands more from, and does less for, his friends than any man living. With a-will " that knows no sineerity, ‘the hypoerisy with which he will win a man he would use, is only equalled by the coolness with ‘which he will sacrifice him when no longer useful. _ “His lust of power, his hupger and thirst aftér uarighteous preferment; his tyranny of ambition,” nnhallowed: save by.its own energies, disclose in habitnal nots_ of ngratitudo, insincerity, false‘hood, the uioral meanness of the man in ‘melancholy “contrast with his intelJeotual eabibre, - But the saddest and- ' most repulsive feature in Judge Dougs’ character is his utter wont of truth. He'will plodge his word of honor with the' fervor of a Roman pairiot, and. ‘break it with the calmness af a Frepch ‘philosopher. _ Trath for. the good that isdn itself as truth, he novor knew — When truth will serve him botter than. mhemn tell it, when it won't, he WL oo e T R <His bravsty of dental, hs darine of assercn; e know Tog both are fulse, ‘are admirable ‘as' specimens. of mendastons urage, thoagh melanchaly as efforts of in. Amierican Senator,. - fo is audacions, arrogant haughty .and tri:, sumphant in his manser of telling lias. b L ing aver is roya vos. They g*&m&%ﬁ%ﬁ*“ﬁ ke b w*figwmww "”’*“%f“‘%ﬁ b g gentoel — o Sl e . Bl lics, full of the strength and Justiness| o R R weTmgnGd

~ Independence at Toledo,” a few of our citizens went down to Toledo on Monday, on the exeursion train to sce the city, do_ a little business and attend the '*Qiebrh,ti_on of our National Abniversaryl’ SRt S

" The ii_'afﬁ@ fine and clear, and not %0 warm as the preceeding days. There. was not as great a numbeif attended as last year. Very many ‘of the towns along the road, had had public celebrations on Saturday, and therefore very many did not feel like incarring a further expense, and loss of time, to visiﬁ’i Toledo on Monday. There were enough however, attended to make it pleasant, as it obviated the uncomfortableness of a dense erowd, and made room and éomfortable accommodations for those who did attend. The oration was delivered by -Mr. Bissel, a young gentleman of that ciéy and was a very creditable effort. * The pablic exercises were held ia an enelosed grove, about half a mile from the business part of thecity. The different military and fire companies wereout in uniform, with different bands of musie, ; o

. In this brief noticeuwe must not veglect to speuk of the “Young America” Military Company, composed of boys from Bto 14 years of age. - e - There was a compauy of about 80 of these little fellows, dressed in uniform: of U. 8. Soldiers, “armed and equipped ag the lawdircets.”” Most of them had miniature gt’msj sabres, &e., of Ux_x_'r:é_e&:‘ States pattern and metal. " The company had doubtless lately incveased, and the reeruits, a fow of them, were obliu: ed toappedr and parade with wooden Beaes OTI B - The coppany were drilled and officered by -those of their own age, and it was highly interesting to notice the diznity and good vrder which the little officers and their cmfnmand ﬁié\int;iinecl’. , ~ In fuct, it was said by sowe tha* they were the best disciptined troops of “the day. w 0 : e There were fire works, niusic and balloon ascensions in theetening. o " : ST TR N T i t@,“ e p:ubli,.fih 'the,followgi_ngj a 5 fair and truthful exposition of the pro~ fessions and. sabsequent aets df‘-ﬂ-x’q prestnt - administhtion. Look af it reader and see whether you will let party sophistry and party feelink do a way with the realization of the plain factsin them contained. Lot o e Presiasnt. LT

e entered the White House, says the Albany Evening Journal, with a promise of frcedom to Kansas on his lips, and a scheme for enslaving it ‘in his pocketi lle declared war agaimstlirculating Notes—and in six weeks; ;v as issaing them himself. Before ‘the’ink was dry with which he pledged “leonomy”’—he had drained the Treasury of its last dollar.. Defore the printers weré done stereotyping his inflexible determination never to borrow-=he was in Wall street soliciting a Loan! | 11116 congratulated the Country on the final end of Slavery agitation—and hehas been agitating it ever since. = He ordered Paulding to stop the Filibusters—and then recalled him for doing it. . Walker of Niearagua hé prononnced an outlaw—and tendered him thke hospitalities of the White HHouse.— ‘Walker of Kansas he ffurnished with ‘written “instructions and turned him tout for obeying them.. In 1857, Te took off the heads of all: Postmasters who co’d not “hurrali for Popular Soyereignty.”” Tn 1858, he takes off ‘the heads of all who repeat the arysof 1857. { He withheld Troops ' from Utah, where he proclaimed. there was War—in order to keep them in Kansas, where { he insisted all was peaec. He sells Forts at the West for a tithe of their | cost, in"ordet o buy sites for Forts ‘at {the Hast at ten times their value—his { subordinates, in both ecases, pocketing. the difference. e is contimually ask|ing for new Steam Frigates—but he ‘Coast of Africa orin the Gulfof Mexe N e PR LT R, S S N I e e R S ico: * He sends out asteamer, ostensibly | to_ cateh the Styx—but with private or- | ders in the Captain’s Désk, to do nothing of the sort. Claiming to be the. sy img!'df?ﬁe&idehf’&-he has %’tﬁw : than any of his predecess Assuming fo be above : party prejudices; he ‘makes partizanship the basis oven of his iuvitations to dinner. . . Murdet in Ohicago. by & husband upon his wifein Chicago, ost woek: . He hud savagely beaten and mutilated her and draggod her froim o room of the house to another, iu down to alivery stable whera' he was f" o Wmﬂmmﬁ%m@% p.in thomorniag and found bis wifs R liging: B gal 0 ek A e -y P. P, Hull long eonnected with N ot ot Cabilieiis, %ok one of The bt 5 0l T Movtos. {eame o e i pleßet e T %wa%‘?ﬁ%*

‘i Grom the Red Wing Republiceh, July 1, TERRIBLE CATASTROPHE! | ~ FIVE LIVES LOST! Mails, Freight and Baggage Destroyed Toss from 50 to _575,000! - This_morning, at about one o'clock, as the gMagPacket Galena landed, at our levee, a fire broke out about her smoke stacks, which soon spread, and resulted in her total destruction. The origin of *&ﬁe*ﬁi;?-n_o one is able to ascertain, Qhough"-’itglssupposedjt was communicated to where it was first discovered from the furnaces of the boilers below, - Nonebutan eye witness can realize. the scene. i e The greatest terror seems to have . seized upon the passengers and the ut: " most confusion immediately followed the alarm. - Men, women and children rughed down the gangway, and over.board from all sides of the ' boat, many of them with nothing but their night clothes on. -+ The rush was so great ‘that the stage plank could not be Janded and ‘buat ‘for the remarkable eoolness and prompt action upon the part of the officers of the hoat, more lives would have been lost. = A strong brecze was - blowing down-the. stream, which soon spread the flames to all parts of thé eab-

- -Theloss of the boat is complete; lit- - tle or'no baggage was sayed, and- the freight and. mails with the ,exc‘:e})&ion of” a portion of the latter destined for Red Wing, wholly consumed. The passen‘gers; many of them, a‘r%i'n a destitute condition, having lost their all ‘even to their last garment Noseflort’ will be spated upon the part of our citizens toal[}cv.ia,t’e_ theircondition. The expression of -the passengers iy universal that Captain Laughton and the officers of the: boat did all that could be done to save the passengers even at great risk to | themselves; and particular credit s awarded to the pilot, for the heroie manner ip ‘which he maintained -his post, until driven-away by the flames. " Most - providential was it that the fire did not break out befere. ITad the ‘boat been a half below, or evena few - {.fec;_tl from 2 good landing, the. loss of life must have heen great indded ; as it Lﬁ, five: kuman beirgs were l@rried [from. existence, leaving among the },su»rvs'i's‘ofrs_. friemds to mourn their loss. : |- Tho loss of the boat is estimated at 550,000 no‘insurance, * ;‘7 «—j—-—b—«b#n‘i—»w——-—__.' e : ‘ ek ~¥rom the Detreit Advertiser, July 3. | Buraing of the Propéller N, America.” "*’C‘%J-mzagi*zi dable Conduet of Captain Attl, = wood of tic Stewmer driel.

- Abont twelve o'clock on Thursday night, the propeller North America wag discovered to be on fire on the St. Clair Flats, where she loyat anchor. The steamier” Ariel; Capt. Atwood, in the Detroit-and. New DBaltimore line, was lying at New Baltimore, and immediately got up steam and went to _her relief, The distance was siz miles to where she lay, near the “elbow,” on, the FElats. When Capt. Attwood arrived; the crew cousisting of thirteen: and two pa;&pgcrs’, had been "picked’ up by a boatfrom the schooner Wm.. R. Wiiliams anchored some two miles: off. Capt. Atwood took them on board an i provided for their wants as tar as possible,with clothing &c.,and yesterdaybrouglit them to this city. when the fire ‘was discovered it had made considerable progress, and those on board were fore--ed to jump overboard, the. small boats: ‘then., being in flames. Some of * them: were in nothing but their shirts, and souie had on pantaloon s. | Capt. Atwood at some risk to his own boat, run_her bows np to the propeller and played on the fire sith lig excellent fir¢ engine but bad no effectin chiccking the flames, and left the wreek burnt nearly to the water's edge, about daylight yesterday et S e e

- The North America was a first class propeller; of about 400 tons, and valued at’ $25,000: - She is. about two years old-and was in the employ of the governinent in the Light-House service, and her time of service. would ‘have jexpiﬁeq_,op]the_.;ith inst. No one on board could give any idea 6f the origilz' of the fire. " The first cngineer attend ed personally to putting out the fires and throwing water in the ash-pans about 11 delgeks T e

| She was owned by parties in CleveJand, where: she was built, and was -chartered for an indefinite period by Uapt. -Jack Wilson; and Mr. M. W. Seranton, and by them re-chartered to run - inthe lighthouse service. She left this' port 'T%Phﬁrsday\_" afternoon, for Point aux Barques, with” no cargo except a quantity of cedar posts and shingles. Bhe was burned to a complete shell' and ‘sunk in 11 foet water. = All that can ever be saved from her will be some portions of‘ﬁer maehinery. Neither Capt. Wilsen nor Mr. gcranton ‘were on board of her at the time.. The ,tﬁngé.{ - The crew lost everything they ‘had on board, most of them saving not even a rag of clothing, and it was with difficulty that they saved their lives.— Cagh: DIl whio W in-solb ant also al the erew spenk in the | est termis of Capt. Atwood and hi %W“‘*“f!’hwm rything:in their power to relieve tf and_provide for their wants, Mau credit is due them for their prompt and . The North American was ingured for 817,000, of which $lO,OOO was in the Jcean and North Western, and'.we beTove th remidar sin tho Cloveland RN, o et TR