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Mtmbeta of the Order ia good standing an in vited to visit this Temple. K. W. DIX02T.W.C.T. M- Tcttie, W. R, . . 33 Rescue of three more Hurvlvora of Ibe Central America, after being Eight iays and Twenty Hours without I'ood or Urlnkt NARRATIVE OP MU. TICK. Within half an hour before the Central America tank it been mo evident to all on board that their efforts at bailing and pumping were unavailing, and Mr. Tice, with ethers, betook himself to the deck. Capt. Ilurndon was then on the hurricane deck, and he saw him but a few moments before the steamer sank. Mr. Tice at nce looked about him to secure some means of saving his life, after the catastrophe should take place. lie found a board of an inch and a half in thickness and about ten feet long, and with it he. took his stand on the hurricane deck, near the stern of the steam er, lie had been there but a few mo ments when the stern began to sink rapid ly, and as the deck sank near to the sur face, ho sprang with his board into the wat er struck vigorously out from the sink ing vessel, and when about forty feet dis tant, La saw the waves closing over the bow. He was sufficiently remote from the steamer when she sank, so that he was not carried under. In a moment the boil ing surface of the sea was Cited with the debris of the wreck, and grasping for them were scores of human beings, still hoping that they might yet be rescued from an impending fute. Resting his chest across the center of the board, Mr. Tice swam to the leeward, and though near ta others who wero struggling in the waves, they were sustained on pieces of wreck and did not attempt to share his board with him, Soon after the aleamer sank, he discover ed the lights of a vessel in the distance, which he supposed to belong either to the bark Marine or the schooner El Dorado which they had spoken a short time before the catastrophe. They were to the lee ward of him, and he continued swimming in that direction, in hopes to reach the vessel ; . but, with the disappearaace ofj the lights, about 9 or 10 o'clock he ceaj rd his efforts. . An hour er two later he again discovered lights, and this time much nearer him. In a few moments he was able to distinguish the hull of a vessel bearing directly toward him. His hopes were raised, and he was confident that he would soon be discovered and rescued. But, when only a quarter of a mile dis. tance from him, tho vessel a bark the Norwegian bark Ellen altered her course, and kept off, and subsequently her hull and lights disappeared while she was apparently sailing off in a fine breeze. During the remainder .of the night he en countered seven persons, who, like himself, were drifting about on fragments of the wreck or boards, and in some instances he hailed them. In one case, the gentleman, a passenger, told Mr. Tice his came, which he is now unable to remember. Another said Unit he bad seen the purser ef the steamer but a short time before, floating on baurd, and the belief was expressed that ho was yet alive. A heavy sea continued to roll during the night and following day. Sunday morning dawned upon Mr. Tice with little to encourage him to hope. The bark became visible, but she was standing off, and by 11 o'clock had sunk below the horizon. The day, however, was fine; the sun shone brightly, but be fore meridian the heat became powerful. But despondency was no part of his na ture. Despite of the drearv prospect of is rescue, he resolved to struggle for life. Sunday night came, nod for another ten ours he wa buffeted by the still heavy waves amid the darkness. But his fatigue was too much fur him to overcome, and often during the night his head would drop on his breast while in an involuntary doze, and he would suddenly awaken with his hand's instinctively grasping the plank, which alone bore his hopes for the future. But, beside his sufferings from exposure to the waves and the beat, thirst and hun ger aaued tueir influence to render mi situation the more desparate. The gnaw- ingsof hungef were severe, but his thirst was terrible, ttw ?osilion WM a fearfuI realization f the words : " Water, water, all around, But not a drop to drink." Monday morning dawned without the presence of anything to cheer his hepes. Occasionally fragments of the wreck, drift iug in the Gulf Stream, would be lifted by the waves into view ; and anon an in flated life-preserver would dance over the summit of wave amid the white caps, and in a moment disappear. The sun set while he was yet tossing on the waves, bat with a spirit unbroken which was yet to suffer severer trials than he Lad yet expe riencedha still clung to Lis plank throughout the night, little expecting that the dawn of the morrow was to waft to him a means that would bnoy him above the waves until Providence should snatch him from the very jaws of death. About 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning, after floating with his plaak fer sixty -one hours, be descried a boat at the distant of two or three miles, and without knowing certainly what it was, furthor than that it seemed to afford a better means of lut - laining himself than his plank, changtd his position, resting Lis body on tho end ofj tho plank, and swam in the direction of. the object. . The wind in the moan lime had become light, and the sea smoother. and he was able to make some progress ia his swimming. Betwetn 12 and o'clock he reached the object ho sought one of the wooden life-boats of the Cen tral America, half filled with water. He grasped its side, and in a moment bad raised himself over the guard. In it he found three oars, a pan, a pail, and three old coats. With the pail Le soon bailed out tht boat. One of the coats he fasten ed oa an oar as a signal, and then placed the oar upright in the bow of tho boat. lie scanned the horizon, but not a sail was to be seen. ' His thirst, too, was increasing, but he resisted the temptation of weaker minds, to drink of the salt water, knowing its fatal consequences. As the pieces of the wreck drifted past he watched them closely to jt if they would afford him any relief. For a moment his hopes ral lied. A few yards distant ho thought he discovered a wicker flask floating on the swell. He sculled to it and secured it, only, however, to be disappointed for the cork had become loosened, and in place of anything to slake his furious thirst was a fow spoonfuls of tall water. ' Night came upon the wanderer, and, exhausted, he foil into an unquiet sleep, which continued till near morning. With the dawn of Wednesday, Mr Tice saw only sea and sky, and all day he had to encounter the ragings of Lunger and thirst and the discomforts of a Lot aun, and the night only afforded him the relief of a disturbud doze. But Thursday, if it afforded ao relief for bodily suffering, rolieved his mind from the monotony of his position. About 9 o'clock he discovered something in the distance. He lock an oar and sculled in that direction, and as he approached it he saw it was apiece of the wreck, on which were two men. When within a mile of them, cue jumped overboard and swam to the boat, and about 11 o'clock Mr. Tice holped him in. He proved to be Alexan der Grant, one of the firemen of the steam er, who had beon nearly five days floating about an a piece of the hurricano deck. The two then rowed to the piece of the wreck and took on board George W. Daw- son, a colored man who was a passenger from California by the Sonora and Central America, They left the dead body of a passenger on the piece of deck as they departed. That day and night they were drifted along by the wind and current- After having briefly related their experi ences since the sinking of the vessel, thoy full into silence, only occasionally broken by a suggestion which some one might make as to the prospect of thoir rescue. Friday and Saturday brought with them no hopes of succor. They had ceased to hunger, but their desire for water knew no bounds. But, with a confident belief that they would not long remain thus, they mutually encouraged each other; and having passed a week since the steam er sank in the midst of scenes which would make any but the stoutest hearl des pair, they entered upon the eighth day of their experience, and the night settled up on them with a dim hepe of rescue on the morrow. On Sunday morning their hopes were cheered. About 1 1 o'clock a sail was seen in the north-east, standing for tht south. They seized their oars and pulled for the vessel a fore and aft schooner and when nearest her, she was not more than two miles distant. But the distance began to iucrease, and in two or three hours from the time they wera overjoyed at her ap pearance, she was out of their sight, and once more their spirits, for a moment so buoyant, relaxed, and for a time a feeling of despair followed. Daylight on Monday morning showed nothing to encaurage hope. But for tbt first tirat in ovtr eight days their thirst for water was to be slaked. A brisk shower of rain began to fall, and while the pail and pan were used to catch a few spoon fulls, they opened their mouths for the few scattered drops that chanced to fall spon their parched and swollen tongues. They caught ia the pan and pail about a quart of water, but so great were their physical sufferings that the water afforded them no immediate relief. Eut another and greater hope was now to be realized than their desire for water. Hardly had they drank tho hut drop which Lad been thus showered upon them, when tht show, cr passed over them, and a few miles dis tant they taw a brig steering directly to ward them, before a light breeze. Soon her topsails were unfurled and set, and she came toward them more rapidly. Grant and Dawson took tho oars and commenced , to row, Tbejr wcrf aJI teakeaetl from suffering, and it ii doubtful whether their efforts ware of much avail in moving the iboat. But it was a struggle for lifo a last effort to save their lives if llioy fulled now, nothing but despair was led them. But they were seen a hail from the brig was wafted over the waves lo their ears ; they pulled more manfully and with renew ed vigor toward their savior. In a mo. ment the boat was near the vetsel'i side, a line was thrown out and caught by the maciattd survivors in the boat, which wot quickly along sido, and in a few moments bowlines wereaboat their farms, and they were upon the deck, eight day and twen ty hours after the sinking of tho steamer. They found themselves on beard tho British brig Mary, Capt. Shearer, of Green nock, Scotland, from Cardenas to Cork. Capt. Shearer had made preparations to receive tho sufferers when he discovered them. After taking them into the cabin, he removed their clothing and gave them a sip of wine, and afterward water and gruel, gradually increasing the amount from time to time until their hunger and thirst were satis6ed. For ikt Argus. The Bible and Slavery. Mr. Editor No crime, however mon strous in itself, but finds its apologies, and no wrong, however plain, but finds somo justification. And it seems that goncrally in propor tion to the magnitude of tht wrong or crime if defended at nil the more un blushing and impudent are its attempts to fortify its turpitude. This seoraincly strange fact will account for that which perhaps creates ordinarily the greatest sur prise in the human mind, when we witness the blackest crimes and most indefensible outrages against right and justice dnfended upon appeals to the highest and holiest sources recognized by men J and the Bible and religion have, as necessity required, been made to cover them not only with (he " mantle of charity," but with the sanction of their prcoepts and the smiles ot their approbation. And it icems that whenever a wrong be comes so utterly indefensible that all other apologies fail, its perpetrators turn as a last resort to the temple of religion and tho pages of the Bible. Did pagans in the early ages of Christinnity need a justifica tien for torturing and martyring their fcl- low-men, they pointed lo the necessity for sustaining religion 1 Did Mahomet require an excuse for desolating whole countries with fire and sword, he found it in religion 1 Did an ignorant and superstitious clergy desire to perpetuate their power by hin deringlhe spread of intelligence, and de. riying the truths of science when they sent a Galileo to prison for developing them lo the world, it was all done in the name of religion 1 Did a bloody Mary and a re. vengeful Elizabeth drag their powerless enemies to the stake and the scaffold, even in liberty-loving England, to gratify their spite, malignity, and hate, it was done for the preservation of religion I Did tho Spanish fionds of South Amorica turp its sunny fields and happy natives into bloody wastes and woo-strickea captives bathed in human gore and scourged in chains and slavery, the heathen must be converted from the superstition of paganism to the service of the Virgin and the acknowledg ment of religion I Does a Brigham Young seek for excuses for the gratification of the basest animalism and crossost licen tiousness, we are pointed to the proofs of tho righteousness of polygamy drawn from the Bible 1 Does the defender of American slavery seek to justify himself for seeking to extend an institution that robs man of those rights dearest to tho human heart tho right to judge of and pursue the means best calculated to make each individual happy or, in oiher words, the right to liberty that converts the subject into a brnte denying him the means of intelli gence or the stimulus to improvement recognizing no law of social relations not even that of husband and wife as applicable to him that makes the slave holder by habit and by necessity a tyrant, unmerciful, cruel, and inhuman that fills the land where it reigns with ignorance and incontinence curses the soil with barrenness and sterility, and spreads dis trust and dread (knowing they have a class who wait only an opportunity and power to take revenge, in their midst) are, I re. peat, these monstrous wrongs to be de fended, tht advocate flourishes in his hand a gilt-edged book with the imposing title, "Holy Bible," and dares Lis opponent to the contest I Yes ! melancholy and lam entable as may be this truth, to the honor of the Bible for having secured such an ascendency over the minds of men that wrongs not justified by conscience and rea son find palliation through faith, and to the dishonor of men who would pervert its precepts and disgrace its mission it is true that no crime in the calendar hat failed to attempt hi dftnst from this lofty authority. Many a humane slaveholder has, no doubt, after lacerating tho quivering flesh of a (lisobtdiutit slave till Lit own Land uavo been stained with the culprit's blood during the day, goue to Lit evening rest, driving the revolting spectacle from his mind, quieting tho risings of cocscitnce aud tho upbraidings of humanity by recall ing tho words, "Servants obey your mot' tors," and " Ye shall take them as an in htrilance for you and your children after you, to inherit thorn forH possession J they shall be your boudimen forever," and " That servant which knew his lord's will, and prepared not Litnsolf, neither did Re cording to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes." W hat a consoling balm to the remorseful conscience of the slave holder whose necessities made him cruel, when the above came to drive away bitter reflections upon the system of slavery I It would be almost a pity to tleprivo him of the consolations which theso quotations carry to men iu inch circumstances but justice to truth, justico to humanity, and, above all, justice to that Bible which is perverted to tht upholding and perpetuity of one of tht most giant tvilt that finds a congenial heme on this depraved earth, re quire that it should be dene. You will, of course, percoivo that I have been a long time coining to the point, but these preliminary lefleotious naturally aug- gestod themselves aa an exordium, and I find it difficult lo abridge them, much as I appreciate the value of space in your col umns. And now, 1st. We are teld by ' A mom. berof the Christian Church,' through the Occidental, that " Slavery is a Bible prin ciple"; that is, American slavery is a Bi ble principle : for, although Le does not so say, his whole argument is to prove that point. To prove that slavery is a Bible principle, he tries to show that slavery ex isted under the Jewish theocracy and the result of his attempt is proof thai there were servants and bondmen that the ser vants (the Hebrews) went freo the soventh year (a slavery about as much like tbtsys. tern ef African slavery which this writer is attempting by this example to prove "right" in itsolf, as my entoring into contract with my noighbor to do a piece of work which would occupy ma for tho same length of time is like it, and no more so) '. e., if a Hebrew owed a brother, and was unable to pay, Lo might take Lim legally for seven years to make his debt out tf him by his labor but no matter if this labor was insufficient for tho debt, he went frea at the end of seven years. This is analogous to tho old law of these States which al. lowed a creditor to cast his debtor in pris on, leaving him there till the debt was paid. And by tho statute of limitations, if the debt was not paid within six years, it was discharged ; and yet where is the man who is such a fool in Lis furious fa naticism for slavery as to think of trying to prove it "right in itself" by comparing our old law of imprisonment for dubt and the creditor losing his remedy in six years, with the existing system of Amorioan sla very ? And I have no doubt but any man would prefer the Jewish sorvicc, with the treatment which the law coinpolled the master to bestow, to being imprisoned tht same length of time. Thus it was a more legal remody fur the recovery of a debt and one milder than has been in practice even as late as tho nineteenth century. And this is Bible proof that Amorioan slavery "is right in itself and neither a national nor a moral evil" 1 And even tho rtmedial laws just referred to have bten repealed as a disgrace to the age. It is a pity that "men become so fanatical as to lose sight of truth and things that are self cvidont" 1 But, says sur friend the advocate of "slavory as a Biblo principle," uudor cor. tain conditions Le was to servo Lis master " forever." But, my friend, does the word "forever" hore used mean perpetual servi tude f or does it mean only for a time spe cified and well understood ! All must ad mit that it canaot be taken in its literal sense, or for all lime its literal meaning ; that would, make him a servant for all time the literal meaning of "forever" when he at most could only be a servant during tho balance of his life. In constru ing tho Bible, we ought to so construe it as to makt it harmonize and when wt learn by tht laws that God gave the Jews that a jubilee was proclaimed throughout all the land every fiftieth year, applying to all classes held in servitude, whether as ser vants or bondmen, who had been bought of the heathen, the difficulty as to the mean ing of the word 14 forever" vanishes. To say that a man might have been, kept in. servitude for all time nnder the Jewish law, is therefore untrue. No Cjass, even the bondmen, could be kept in servitude longer than fifty years, Hence the con. struction that the word " forever" means till the year of jubilee next proclaimed throughout tht land becomes irresistible. To say that a system of servitude which Msually lasted six, but never mor than fifty years, which Lad its origin as a remody for a debt and net in the mere superiority ,i tho master, establishes that American sla very, which dooms its subjects and their posterity to perpetual slavery, forbids them any lawful sanction to the rights of marriage, places them completely at the masters disposal, knows them only as property, forbids them the meant of en lightenment and improvement ii in any just sen so right, is about as logical as to say that two and three make ten. " Any mind possessing any balance at all can see" uch an argument springs from a '' badly balanctd mind" as well as a badly culti vated hoart. Suppose, my friend, that the law of American slavery was abolished, and the Jewish code of servitude instituted In iti place. By that code, bondmen bought tf tho heathen who became con verted went free tin seventh year. " Six years shall he serve, and in the soventh Le hull go out free fur nothing." Vastly like American slavery, is it not t Again, for the emancipation of the hta. then who remained uuconvtrted bondmeo, it is said, Lev. zxv. 10, "Ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout alt the land unto all the in habitants TitP.BEOF." This bears a Luge reseinblunco to tho statute of South Caro lina : " Slaves oliull be deemed, held, ta ken, reputed, and adjudgod in law to be chattels personul in the Lauds of their owners and possessors, to nil intents, con structions, and purposes whatsoever"; and the constitution of Arkansas: "The Le gislature shall Lave no power to past laws emancipating slaves"! The Jewish law emancipated all the fiftioth year; ours makes their slavery eternal. Tht Jewish law would in fifty years free every slave on American soil ; and yet we are todl "slavery ia of Divine sanction." The Jowish law protected the person of the slave, and the lost of an eyt or a tooth ict him free. American law, at expounded by one of the ablest judgei who over eat in the forum, Chief Justico Ruffin of North Carolina, is, "The power of the master must bt absolate the submission ef the slavo perfect." By the Jewish law, if toe slave ran away all were strictly forbidden to catch him, American law calls upon all citizens to as Hist iu oatching him ; and, as if human aid were not enough, the fierce and mer. cileas bloodhound is trainod to track the flying fugitive from cruolty, oppression, and wrong. By the Jewish law, more than ont third of his time was at his own disposal ; by our law not a single breath that he draws is his own all is his mas tcr's. By the Jewish law, kidnapping was punished with death; American law, by the efforts of such mon as Washington, Madison, Adams, Monroe, Jefferson, and Franklin, is made to brand the taking them from thoir native land as piracy one in stance whtre our law is in advance of the Mosaic, for that permitted them to buy of the heathen. Such is Bible and such Am erican slavery. One destroyed, the other porpotuates slavory forever. The opera tions of one found the province of Judea at the coming of Christ without a single slave, so far as we are informed ; tho other encourages, protiels, maintains, and ex tends the institution by all tht -.auctions of its authority. To make the Bible sustain such a system as the latter because the for mer was permitted, is simply absurd. But admit, for the sako of argument, that the Hebrews had slaves does that make it right to have slaves now! God permitted Abraham to have more than out) wife J is polygamy therefore right I God, in forming the government fot his chosen nation, united church and statt j Is that therefore right ! God gavo them a king to rulo thorn ; Is a monarchy therefore right! God said that for every iniquity which shall be established against another, it shall be at the mouth of two or three witnesses; shall tht folon Jhertfore now go unwhipt ef jnstice becaust there is only one witnosi to testify to his guilt I God told his people whenever they took a city of their enemies', they shtulJ put all tho males to death is the murder of disarmed defenseless prisoners therefore right! God told Saul to "smite Amalrk and ut terly destroy all that they Lave, and spare tbetn not, but slay both man and woman t infant and suckling, ox and sheep, or.m and ass;" is such inhuman butchery therefore right! Alas! alas I far the hu man reason that can bo guVlcd by such, puerile sophistry to accept such a mon-. sftus wrong for a divine institution. What is a slave! " A slave is a ptrson who is the absolute property and under tho absolute control of another, doomed in bia own person and that of his posterity to live without knowledge and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may reap the fruits." Set opinion of Judge Ruffin in case of N Carolina vs. Mann, 2d Dtvereauj Reports, pore 263. . - Such is the definition by an apright,jus llaveholdiBg judgt, and it, well accords.-