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iu:n 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 ■HH|Khom.i so. I . U 1C . " o ■ 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. H^H§Wc\ir-:. ho oca: a. * te.,,,.; hlj. • 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.