CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Evening Post, Issue 65, 25 April 1865, Page 3

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

The U. S. corvette Iroqnois, on her arrival at the Cape, had on board a portion of the two crews landed by the Confederate cruiser Shenandoah (late the Sea King), at Tristan d' Acunha, and taken off from there by the Iroquois. There are twenty-three men of the whaler Edward, of New Bedford, burnt near the equutor, and four of the schooner Lizzie Stacy, of Boston. The Shenandoah is commanded by Captain Waddell. The commander of the Troquois expected to find the Shenandoah somewhere about the Cape coast. There had been « fire on the mornincr of Bth at Port Elizabeth, whirl* destroyed property estimated at about £20,000. We quote as follows from the Cape Argus of the 12th of January :-- In our last summary per steamer Kaffraria we announced that there was little danger of any disturbances in the Free State, and that the Hasuto chief, Mobesh, had pledged himself* to abide by the award of his Excellency Sir Philip Wodehouse in the matter of the disputed boundary. Since then the Basutos have quietly retired from the lands they were directed to abandon, and the President of the Free State, accompanied by the bulk of the patrolling force, has returned from Bloemfontein, the capital of the country. On the afternoon of Mr. Brand's return, the municipal commissioners presented him with an address, signed by one hundred and thirty-one of the inhabitants. In his "reply the President among other things, said that next to an over-ruling Providence he had to thank Sir Philip Wodehouse for the peaceful, and, so far, satisfactory, settlement of the line question.

Wif-e men mingle innocent mirth with their cares, as a hope either to forget or overborne them ; but to resort to intoxication for the ease of one's mind, is to cure melancholy with madness. t A coachman, extolling the sagacity of one of his horses, observe! that, " if anybody was to go for to use him ill, he would bear ma ice lik«WChristian."