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house afloat—-
t»v explosion,
resist the tur._v of, the
e^ffw« t #sii/««£*» over "' ,ose melancholy
•i ■ fh»ny hearts are freshly bleeding,
and so few, comparatively, are permitted,;
Lith ** t ** tpne d and sobered feelings, to
-ritoiiefc r friends or relatives, preserved — ,
t fr»-»nlasVi answers this definition.
last year, after the fearful wreck)
of the Home—this boat was yet modelled
|Htd constructed like our river boats, long,!
U»\v, narrow and sharp—without sufficient!
beam to steady her, and of such inordin
ate length as to be almost necessarily
bent by the weight of the powerful ma
chinery in the centre. - r
Her first trip, as we are credibly inform
ed, proved her to be so crank, that addi
tional supports were immediately supplied
—and then, for repeated trips to and from
Charleston, there was a regular race be-
tween the Pulaski and the Georgian,
W both leaving the same post at the same
lipur, and the newspapers competing with
other in chronicling the number
hours, and minutes, in which each
H performed its voyage. Tliis sport,
became so dangerous, that even
indifi'crence to human life could
it, and.some one journal more
than the rest, the Charleston
we believe, denounced the pr.ic-
advised all travellers to avoid
to on
HHHB in -v;
lie no more racing
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deplon ,
tnieed to : : .i roc. 1
> tii.it tie- may
trained i 1
of can high 'll mi:,
lee and ele, or to !,I • l t •
the reader
tlmse hod’ '
is ill the l.oat-
m th.
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ho
oca: a.
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m^H^Beuce
but time m i 1 be st.-ainsiup
gj&d^sj^Kstrueted-
by
carrying
for example, t ie <«><
'Ve do not doubt that a better
convenient arraiigement ol Ik r
might easily be made : hut take
■ll, am! there you line a si much,
gram lie. vessel, a likely to survive
as any other tim
H^^H>uanii>ou
the sapiare nidi, nolle that of
[Bil is.
a rent made m a iiailrr, midi
KHSSBuroif 4 lbs.— Ihi te i:: i and u iter
it might be s’ :hha!; but
e n , explosion
tttld dtitroy of the
But uvder a pre.v-iin* six or seven
us great, the work of destruction
■■>><l tffs’-’-is'.ij'le. And w hat i- there,
t»n- terrible risk’ Simply
■Vviim of a Idyv hours id' time, u hicli,
saved, we are at a loss to
B, even on the score of time, one
suppose that tin: accoinplislimeiit by
U eslern of her three great heats j
miles each, in periods not varying
jjHe hours, and at a rate averaging 2611;
a day, should satisfy the greatest
of bis moments—and that es-
women and children should not
to death by explosion, and
wreck, merely that a lew hours
less might be saved.
comes it then, it ma\ be asked,
Will contlime to
that, i:i our jmloumt, ii is
through the inc emu! w lie I m n;a: e
B press. When readers tin<l even
,t spoken of in term-- >9'mimer-v.v.l
—her beaut v, her strength, her
and her sal'etv, averred in even
S&Hf po-ilive speech— it n natural for
Bo suppose that tin* facts set
to ti n-1 themselves m such mai
■Bs in so many others, to die impress-
derive from the newspapers.
then, the reform begin with the
Let .lonnialists, one and all, ab-
chronicling “shortest pass iges
from praising the -peed of boats, and .
all, from certifying what for the
|B part they cannot he qualified to do
that this or tliat .-trujture,
is safe and strong. Let
IH go one step further, and reprobate
lißuit stint, and especially without anv
> their subscription list, eyxry act on
r, rt of steamboat owners, ® gents or
|Bers calculated in anv manner to impair ,
of passengers.
B'lus. we verily believe, would be tile
Hit step in accomplishing Reform. Af-
self-interest will cause tint con-
and projier management ofprop-
vessels.
BVVe are the more earnest in stibmit-
Bigtliese remarks just now, because,while
Bible sympathy is alive, public attention
Bavoe turned to the subject with some
Ba 1 < l f n beneficial issaie.
this was written we perceive the
explosion took place in moderate weather.
Either tljen the boilers wore strained by
previous. efforts, or there was gross and
most culpable .negligence in the manage
ment yf the boilers.—[Ed. N. V. A.)
[From the Correspondent of the Boston Post.]
UUl.lt ANI) E.VCITKMKNT IN Nu\V
York. A great degree of, excitement is
prevailing in the city, with regard to the
sudden and appalling death of Miss Lou
isa Missouri. You, who have witnessed
her performances at the Tremont Thea
tre, must be fully aware of her extraordi
nary histrionic abilities., ller debut was
.eminently successful, and she promised to
I attain a higher rauk in her profession
than had eyer beep before reached by any
j American actress, . She was a pupil of
' Mr. Ilaniblin, the former manager of the
j Bowery theatre, and it ( that she
; had entered, into some contract vyitli him,
j by which he yvas to reap, in consideration
of the instruction he afforded* spme por
tion of the results of her acting
i She was, as is well known here, the
i daughter pf a Mrs. Miller—an abandoned
! woman, who has long kept a public broth
el in one of Jhe purlieus of .the citv.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
Her father, who died some y ears ago, be
queathed to her a competent fortune for
her support and education. She attained
the age of sixteen years before she went
upon the stage. She was a mild, gentle,
agreeable girl, and, though surrounded
by the most contaminating influences, had
kept herself “unspotted from the world.”
Her mother at first consented to her go
ing upon the stage —and that she enter
tained some pride in her daughter’s suc
cess mas be concluded from the fact of
her having caused an advertisement sign
ed w ith the name of Louisa Missouri, to
he inserted in the newspapers, offering a
premium of one thousand dollars for a
tragedv suited to the “young candidate's”
style of acting. While in Boston, Miss
Missouri publicly denied having had any
part in nil offer so inconsistent with the
modesty of so youthful a performer. Af
ter hw return to New \ ork from Boston,
her mother ordered her to leave the stage
entirely. This seemed unaccountable,
hut the reason of the order soon became
apparent from the communication of the
fact that, an elder daughter had written to
Mrs. Miller, saying that she must take,
Louisa from the stage.
As Miss Missouri very naturally refits-,
cd to obey »he commands of her unrea
sonable parent, the mother determined up-,
on persecuting her into obedience. The,
expression which she used in making ■
known her determination was, that she
would make her “suffer the tortures of
hell'’ till she left the stage. She com
menced bv taking her forcibly to her own
brothel, and, it is reported and believed,
endeavored to compel her to prostitute j
herself. The poor girl was enabled to
resist the devilish designs of her unnatur
al mother and at last to escape from her
house. She betook herself to the Surri
gate, who, upon hearing her pitiful story,
appointed a guardian for her. Thisgtiar
dian was Mr. Justice Bloodgood. He
placed her in a respectable hoarding house
—and there she would have remained in
peace, hud it not been for tint fiendlike
persecutions of Mrs. Miller. She called
at the hoarding-house and made such a
disturbance, that the keeper of it lelt
himself compelled to say to Miss Missou
ri, that she must seek other lodgings.
Half distracted with fear and grief, and
not knowing what to do, the innocent
creature fled to her only final friend, Mrs.
Hamblin, vvJio very kindly took her into
her house and under her protection.
As soon as it became known that she
was at Hamblin's house, the vi!c.->t stories
and leports were set afloat. A dirty lit
tle paper, established, a3 it is said, by
.Mrs. Miller herself, came out with the
grossest fabrications mid reflections upon
her char cter. Her friends endeavored to
keep the paper from her observation; hut
happening accidentally to see it, she read
the article and instantly fell to the floor
in violent convulsions. On her recovery
from them, it was found that site was a
maniac! film remained in this state until
she died on Saturday evening—literally
of a broken heart.
Duelling. The practice of the duel j
has not censed iu other countries, but in
Europe it is nut so generally fatal as in!
tliis country. A London paper relates'
the following interesting case which'
latelv occurred in Ireland.
No. I. .1 n affair of honor about Lore.
The parties in this tender “affair” were
James 8 1 and William B tli
both esquires; and it came oli- —more cor
rectly speaking, it “came on'' last Tues-'
day, at six o’clock in the evening, about
a mile and a half from Dromore. The !
parties were duly attended by the proper!
complement of seconds and surgeons,— 1
because, though since the invention of
patent safety pistols, surgeons are seldom i
wanted on these occasions, yet their at-,
tendance gives an awful kind of com-'
plexion to tire thing, and it is always best
to be provided against accidents, for there
is no knowing what might happen; some
gentlemen having been known to take the
report of the pistol for tlie reception of
the bullet, and so fall down by mistake; in
which case the surgeon spay be useful iu
convincing them of the error and induc
ing them to get up again. On the pres
ent occasion, however, as good luck
would have it, they were not wanted at:
all. The ground was measured—twelve
handsome strides; the gentlemen were
placed—the word was given; and bang!
i —\Vent the pistils; but the gentlemen
stoixl erect —there was no harm done; and
nohftdy knew what became of the bullets.
A conference took place, in which it was
) decided that, sufficient satisfaction had
not bopu elicited. So the pistols were
charged again; the gentlemen were plac
ed again, and bang! went the pistols ns
before. ( Another double miss2—the bul
lets had pandered no one knew whither,
i and the gentlemen remained exactly :'as
) they wt-rf —-except that they were rather
| more soli fed. Still they had not quite <
j satisfaction enough; and* as there, is luck
in unequal ; numbers it was agreed that
they should\haye another try.
. .Again th^ pistols were charged, again
tb/e gentleuitn were placed, again the
word was gi\en, and again the pistols
went, bang! jit was :t>f no Use; the gen
tlemen could ifyt hiteacU other; —the bul
lets—in pity (iprhaps of thp lady about
i whom they quarrelled, would not touch
either of them; toad so “(tn amicable cu-~
ranginanl took ylacd, atid the parties left
Ihp-ground goo\ fric'ndif —at least so
says-the Derry J hut whether one
of the gentlemen teliuquishcd ail claim to
the lady; or whotlw- they “sieg'd a rop>-
per for her,” the Derry Journal does not’
say.
FROM FLORIDA.
The steamer John McLean, Capt. Adams, j
has arrived at this port from Black Creek, E.
F. From Paymaster Stewart of tiie Army, we ;
derive the following particulars:
Gen. Taylor, on the 29th June, left Garey’s j
Ferry for Okefinokoe Swamp, and had ordered 1
six companies—four of Infantry and two of i
Dragoons—to repair forthwith to the Mineral ,
Springs, (Suwannee) and if practicable at tins j
season of the year, lie intended to penetrate the
Swamp, but if not deemed practicable, will es- ;
tabfisb posts near and around the Swamp, so
as to protect the inhabitants of Georgia and
Florida from the incursions of the Indians.—
Gen. T. has ordered supplies up the St. Marys
to Trader’s Hill, and also from Tampa Bay to
the Mineral Springs on tho Suwanee. He tir- j
rived on the '2d hist., at Charles’ Ferry on the
Siiwanee, from which place he would proceed ]
with his staff to examine the vicinity of the;
Swamp. Col. Harney, w ith a detachment of!
Infantry and Dragoons, recently visited (by 1
steam boat) Fort Lane and stopped at Fort Mel- *
lon on Lake Monroe, but discovered no signs I
)f Indians. Fort Mellon and other posts on
I lie St. Johns, evacuated by the troops, are still ;
standing.
Col. If. contemplates, at ail early day, an'
excursion with four companies of Dragoons to !
the Ouitldacoochee, as si reconnoitering party. |
[Savannah Georgian. I
Monroe Rail-Road. As many are not
aware of the progressive state of this Road,
and as an unfavorable impression has gotten
possesion of the minds of some in relation to
it, we have been induced to obtain, and lay;
before our readers the following information, I
which may be relied on as correct. Within i
thirty months from the commencement of the j
Monroe Rail-Road, hence to Forsyth, twenty- ;
five miles will be finished, say by the first of I
November next, and a portion by September.
The iron for the whole road is received, and a I
large portion of the line, and several miles of
the superstructure already laid. The first
seven miles of this work is very heavy—so i
much so, that visiters from abroad express their
surprise that so much work should have been
accomplished in so shoit a time, and so little
said in reference to it. The enterprise is not
likely to stop here. A survey has already been
made beyond Forsyth, twenty-two miles, and
about three miles located, deeds for the right
of way having been taken to a considerable
number.—We have also ascertained from un
questioned authority that it is the purpose of j
the Company to meet the Georgia Road, and ;
form a junction with the Western and Atlan
tic Rail-Road at the same time. These facts j
place the mailer in a different view from that l
entertained by some unacquainted with the I
true state of things. And it is to he hoped j
that the papers in the habit of noticing Internal j
Improvements in the State, will award to this j
Company the justice that is their due. A more ;
energetic body' of men we believe do not exist j
in any Company in the State, than those who
have the superintendence of this Road. I
[Southern Post.
A singular and fortunate escape is mention- 1
ed in the Inst Zanesville Gazette. Mr. G.
Fracker, of that place, having plunged into the
Muskingum river, with a view to bathing, had
scarcely dived half a rod before ho felt himself
caught in the upper lip by a fish hook of a large
size, and suddenly thrown back. After an in
effectual attempt to loose the line, he caught
it in his teeth, and succeeded in biting it in
two, and swam to the shore, with the hook fast
through his lip. He was held under the water
by a line, and bad he failed inseverving it with
his teeth, he would have been compelled j
to tour the hook from his lip, or submit to
speedy strangulation.
(dept. Mutter, who recently left St. |
Marks with a detachment of troops, iu
quest of the runaway Creeks, we under
stand, lias reached Chattahoochee, after
a faithful and persevering examina
tion of the country between the Apalach-j
icola and Ockiockonee Rivers, but with
out being successful in capturing the fu
gitives. About ‘Jf) have been taken, and
with the women who remained at Wal
kerstown, sent to Dog Island. The
troops, worn down by constant service,
have been suffered to recruit a short time,
when we learn, they will again give pur
suit. We presume, from Capt. Mutters
acknowledged perseverance and industry,
that these Indians will soon be secured.
We stated in our last paper that Ste
phenson, who embezzled the funds of the
Commercial Bank of Apalachicola, and
made off with his plunder, had been cap
tured near St. Joseph, by the citizens of
tliat place and committed to Pensacola
Jail. We learn from the last Gazette,
tliat Mr. S. was brought upon a writ of
liab cos Corpus, before Judge Evans, and
the amount of hail demanded reduced
from 4:2J,00(1 to $2,000, after which he
was given in custody of the Marshal.
There being no jail either county or Ter
ritorial, “S/ephenson was placed under
a guard at the Florida Hotel, where his
wife and family where staying. In the
course of evening it seems he was
very liberal atlhe bar and bis guard fell
asleep. Need we tell the rest? The
prisoner took horse «nd is.now, no d<mbt,
beyond the reach of pursuit.”—[Flori
dian.
Si icidal Salmon.— lt is said that one of
the wonders which the Fraser’s of Lovat, ujio
are Lords of the manor, used to show their
guests, was a voluntarily cooked salmon, at the
falls of Kilmotac. For tliis purpose a kettle
was placed on a flat rock on the south side of
the full, close by the edge of the water, and
keptfnll and boiling. There is a considerable
extent of the rock w here tents are erected, and
thepvitole was under a canopy of over shading
trees. Thete the company arc said to have
waited uutil a salmon fell into the kettle, and
was boiled in their presence.— YarrelCs British
Fishes. •"’ r: i
An Editor wiim a Race Horse—An edit- ■
or in the far West has bought a race Imrse for j
which he paitf.s2o(Kk?r-On being asked wjiat an !
editor had to do with a race horse? lie replied !
that he was to be used “catching runaway sub-;
scribers.” ' •
In the latter part of the ‘fifth act,’ in the
scene before the last of the r‘Sub-Treasu
ry,” when the shrill cry of“ Question”'
broke upon the ear with piercing note,
loud vnd continued long, the Alexandria
Gazette asserts, that there stood Dr.
Haynes, with arm raised aloft, assuming
the air of a Tragedy King, and exclaim
ing with all his might—
“ For me, no terrors has the cry of question,
I’ll speak till Dooms-day, but limit be beard—
I ask the ayes and noes !”
This was literally the Doctor’s speech.
He is so much of a tragedy hero, that his
common conversation falls naturally into :
blank vers.e.”
' I
Appreciation of Real Estate in
Charleston. The vacant lot in the
burnt district, and adjoining Mr. Doug
lass’ store on Meeting-street—belonging
to the estate of Miller, sold last week for
TEN THOUSAND ONE lIUNOItED DOLLARS.
The dimensions of the lot are 40 feet
front by GO depth—so that the price is
upwards of 200 dollars per front foot.
This is a cheering sign amid the calami
ties from lire, and tlie want of money un
der which Charleston has suffered. The
rise ot Real Estate is a surer indication
of returning prosperity than the rise of
any other species of property —because it
is the heaviest and comes up at last.
[Mercury.
Hon. Loaxii Baldwin, died at Charles
town, Mass, of paralysis, on the 80th ult.
He was well and extensively known as a
distingushed civil engineer, and many
public works, constructed under his direc
tion, attest his skill. Among them are
the Dry Docks at the navy yard in Charles
town and Norfolk. He was graduated at
Harvard University in 1800, and subse
quently educated to the bar which profes
sion lie abandoned for that ofengineering.
[Georgian.
The Easton (Fa.) Argus announces
the completion of the Lehigh navigation
to the Great Falls. The distance is about
twenty-five miles, in which a fall of six
hundred feet is overcome by locks and
dams, varying from fifteen to forty-live
feet.
A Bone for tiie Yankees to Pick,. —
The following paragraph is from the
London Spectator:
It is high time that the conduct of Brit
ish naval officers on foreign stations were
made tiie subject of serious complaint ill
the House of Commons—or it will be bet
ter done by Lord Brougham in the Lords.
Application to the Admiralty are made in
vain. It is a fact, we have on undoubt
ed authority, that British merchants prefer
applying in any emergency to Anitrican
Ships of Whtr, rather than suffer the in
sult and neglect almost universal upon
application to British “protection,” which
has became a nominal phrase without
real meaning. No experienced merchant
of this country, residing abroad, ever ex
pects assistance in the quarter from which
it ought to be preferred.
During tiie year iB3G, upwards of three
hundred and fifty lives were destroyed by
steamboat accidents: iu 1887, six or seven
hundred were cut off in the same wav, and
for year ItsßSwe may already count near
ly or quite a thousand persons killed thus,
and a prospect of having to witness at the
end of (lie year, if the evil be not arrested,
a proportionable increase of this hideous
ratio. If the country does not wish to be
sunken in reputation, this havoc must
cease. Congress lias failed in its duty in
this matter. Mr. Webster’s proposition to
regulate steamboats, if carried into effect
when it was made would have saved the
country some two thousand lives—a con
sideration of greater importance than the
metaphysico-constitutional scruples and
defeated it. —National
(Jaz.
A woman Can’t Keep a Secret. —
Houck, the Mail Robber, that escaped
from the Columbus Jail, Ohio, has been
taken near Springfield. Houck’s sister told
a neighboring woman, a confidant of hers,
that he was concealed in the house—this
woman having a husband, of course told
him, and lie, having regard for the laws,
communicated it to the sheriff of the coun
ty. Thus does justice secure her ends.
Houck is only about 25 years of age—and
has followed robbing the mail about two
years.
A PeudentiaL Consideration. We
have tfic pleasure of the personal ac
quaintance of a very distinguished officer
w hose lady having died in one of our col
onies, and expressed a wish to be buried
in England, was accordingly deposited in
a cask of runi for the purpose of trans
porting home, but who remained in the
cellar ot said distinguished officer even
after his second marriage, the detention
being occasioned by his expectation that
the duty on spirits imported into England
iu which the dear departed was preserved
would in a few years, be either lowered,
or taken off altogether. Strange as this
may seem, it is true. —{Ung. Paper.
Fair Trade. — “l have a little adver
tisement in your paper this morning, Mr.
Printer; you can let me have five or six of
your papers, I suppose, and not charge me
any thing?”
sir, we can let you have them, hut
when a man goes into your store and bffys
a vest pattern, do you give hint a hnhd
shw gratis ?”
[Frojn the National Intelligencer.]
TIIE BILL TO INCREASE THE PRESENT
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.
The bill which, for several days past, has
been the subject of discussion in the House of
Representatives, was, after receiving much
amendment, ordered on Friday night to a third
reading, and was read a third time on Satur
day, when a motion was made to reconsider
the vote by which it passed; which motion is
yet undecided. Doubting not that our distant
friends in the Army, and our readers general
ly, desire to know something of the measure
of the proposed increase, we have, after partic
ular examination of its provisions, prepared the
following synopsis:
THE RANK AND FILE.
Jlriillen). —Increased 830 men, including the
addition of four companies, one of each regi
ment—with the reduction of one lieutenant in'
each company.
Infantry —lncreased 3670 men, including one
additional regiment, with an increase of the
compliment of commissioned officers (33). To
tal increase of rank and file 4,500.
It will he seen that the increase of the rank
and file is 4,500, while the increased number
of infantry and artillery officers is only 13; of
the latter, there is a reduction of 20 lieuten
ants, and of the former, an increase of 33 offi
cers.
ADDITIONAL officers.
loirigiqrii h"
r L® 4 A
IO | |*s jXje II
ij-ig-nlrii
Infantry, - - - - 1 1 110 25) 33
Engineers, - - - 0 1 2C 12 21
Topographical do. - - 1 1 05 20 2(i
' Ordnance Officers - - 0 0 2 020 22
Commissaries - I Ol 1| II 31 011 5
i Ass’t Adjutants General, 0 0 24 0 G*
, Quartermasters, - - - 2 2 028 0 32
Surgeons, - - - OOOnO 7
! WagonniastersJ - - 000 0 0 20
Total increase 4 6 857 72) 166
'Omitted in the addition, as these assistants
j do not increase the number of officers in the
Army.
; t Attached to the Quartermaster’s Depart-
I irient with the pay of captain.
From this number, (106,) deduct the 20 lieu
: tenants transferred from the artillery to the
ordnance; which makes the actual increase
t number of officers in the aggregate 140.
The correspondent of the Charleston Mer
cury, says: “The nominations under the new
Army Bill were made to-day, and will he pop
ular. Os the new' Regiment of Riflemen,
Worth is to be Colonel, Pierce, Lieut. Colonel,
and Hitchcock, Major—all well known and
popular officers.
Mobile, June 2G.
Commercial Bank of Florida. By a
1 gentleman just arrived here from St. Josephs,
we learn the following particulars in relation
to this institution, and we give them just as
they have been communicated to us. It ap
pears that Stevenson, the purchaser of said
bank, attempted,to abscond with its assets, in
tliq. steamer lon, from Columbus to Texas, via
j New Orleans, and with that view sent the
; clerk in advance to St. Josephs to obtain the
j necessary clearance papers, and to rejoin the
j boat at the Point at the entrance of the Bay.
Immediately after the arrival of the clerk
( at St. Josephs, the United States steam [jacket
I Florence, bound from Tampa Bay to Mobile,
put in there, and the clerk supposing her to be
1 the lon, and fearing if yhe reached the wharf
j it would frustrate their design, decided to go
j and meet her down the Bay, and offered a
•large amount to be put on board. This excit-
I ed suspicion, and ho was arrested and coerced
to make known the intentions of his visit.
Upon these being known, E. J. Wood, with
i several other citizens, made application to
i Captain Johnson of the U. S. steamer, to put
out and meet the son, to which he readily as
! seated. They had not proceeded far before
! they espied the smoke of the lon, ami in a
short time they were side by side.
The citizens of St. Josephs were put on
board the lon, where they found Stevensou
and his family. .He had S9OOO in specie, be
sides a large amount in Commercial Bank pa
per. He had a hearing before the authorities
of St. Josephs, and was committed.—[Corn.
Register.
! The editor of the New York Herald, in one
i of his recent letters from London, says:
j “Anew mode of applying steam has been
j invented, which will do away with horse pow
[er entirely on canals. On the day of the
i launch last week, a small boat of forty tons:
: was passing and repassing the river, Svifliout
j paddles or sails. She had a high pressure en
; gine on board; and there she went through
| the water, puff, puff, puff, puff, without indi
cating any other symptom of motive power,
I or even a single ripple disturbing her course.
“It seems that she lias under her bottom a
j single paddle, iuthe shape of a screw, with
1 one turn only. To this screw is given a rota
ry motion by the steam engirfe—and its motion
: propels her through the water,without creating
I a single ripple on the surface around the boat.
|An experiment was made last week on the
j Surry Canal, and it succeeded beyond all ex
pectation. I saw the little boat myself, mov
-1 ing like a living creature over the dirty bosom
!of the Thames. There is now no doubt of
I the entire success of the plan, and in less than
Ia couple of years I expect to sec the whole
| lengtli of the Erie Canal navigated by steam
! power, without injuring at all its banks. One
suck steamboat as T saw could take a train of
thirty canal boats, at a speed of six miles au
| hour.”
Tuff’Press. A base attempt was made on
1 Saturday last at the depot of the South Caro
t lina rail road, in Hamburg, to take the life of
I Wm. E. Jones, Esq. Editor of tiie Augusta
j Chronicle. Robert Glover, a desperate char
acter, drew two large pistols on Mr. Jones,
i and was only prevented froni using them by
: the crowd which shielded Mr. J. who was arm
ed with a small pocket pistol. Mr. Jones had
spoken in his paper in strong tbrnts of the
conduct of Glover in assaulting. mid biting oft’
the nose of one of the city in
j duced the attempt to murder.
Tiie Lamar Family. It is said that the
Lamar family, lost in the Pulaski, were all go
ing to England irijtie Great Western, to sec
the Coronation of f}re British Queen. The
young Lamar that survived, has gone raving
mad, and his condition draws more strongly
on our sympathy than if he had perished amid
the waves that closed onjua kindred.—[N. V.
Express.