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Blockade-Running. The following letter describes a voyage out from Wilmington, through the blockaders, before the fall of Fort Fisher. The writer has since been captured on board the blockade-running steamer Stag: Steamship Stag, St. Georges, Bermuda, January 1, 1865. My Dear Father: For being allowed the privilege of once more writing you from a point of safety, after experiencing a most dangerous trip from Wilmington, I feel the profoundest gratitude to the Almighty Being, to whose mercy alone I attribute the fact of our not being lost. The opening of this letter will no doubt fill you with the same feeling; and knowing that you will be eager for them, I will give some of the particulars, which can never be effaced from my memory. Just before leaving the coast of North Carolina, I wrote M., informing her of our expected departure on the night previous to Thursday, which letter I hope she has received. Night arrived, and about 12 M. we got under way, ha
e also adopted: 1. "Resolved, That the Auditor of the city be, and is hereby, instructed to issue his warrant upon the Chamberlain in favor of the Judge of the Hustings Court for the sum of two thousand dollars per quarter, from the 1st of January, 1865, and to continue until the further order of the Council. 2. "Resolved, That the Council recommend to the Hustings Court to increase the salary of the city attorney to --. 3. "Resolved, That the Committees on Light, Water Works and, That the Council recommend to the Hustings Court to increase the salary of the city attorney to --. 3. "Resolved, That the Committees on Light, Water Works and Fire Departments be instructed to inqure whether any of the officers connected with these departments can be dispensed with. 4. "Resolved, That the salaries of the teachers of the primary schools be four thousand dollars, each, from the 1st of January, 1865." After some other unimportant business, the Council adjourned.