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MORNING NEWS.
BY JOHN M. COOPEB.
W>. T. THOMPSON, EDITOR
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IHsadhy Morning, April 29, 1850.
LARGEST CIRCULATION!
ry The Daily Morning News has now a circu
lation larger than that of BOTH THE OTHER DAI
LIES TOGETHER, and consequently Is the best
advertising medivm. We state this fact in justice
to ourselves and for the benefit of the advertising
public.
See first page for our rates of advertising,
py Advertisements should be handed in at an
early hour, to insuro their appearance in the paper of
the next morning.
Police Court.—On Saturday morning Inst,
several individuals who ltopt store in the burnt
district, were brought up before his Hon. the
Mayor, charged with keeping in their stores
more powder than is allowed by the ordinan
ces of the city. f Messrs. Cooper & Gilli
land, one of the firms, acknowledged the truth
of the charge, and were fined $50. The others,
were discharged, no proof of a sufficient nature
to fine them, having been adduced.
Francis Ring was fined $15 and costs, for
entertuining negroes on the Sabbath, contrary
to tho ordinances of the city, and for selling
spirituous liquor without a license.
[For the Daily Morning Npwa.l
Mr. Editor,—For some twenty years I
have beon a reader of the Reports of the
Inspector of Dry Culturo to the Chairman of
the Committee on Dry Culture, of the City
Council of Savannah. Through all the muta
tions of men and parties during those years (
the Inspector's Repnrts huve beon in the same
strain. After commending those that had
attended to their obligations in draining their
lands, in observance of their contract, the Re
ports invariably go on to say something like
thin: “The Lands of A. B., &c., are still in
very bad order. The trunk mentioned in my
last Report as being blown out, remains so
still, &c., and the ditches are very foul.”
Now, why did not tho Committeo on Dry
Culture, when the first report was made, of the
condition of there lands, act, and not leave
them for the Inspector to make a second Re
port, representing them as worse than before.
Again, " The piece of ground lying so and so,
is a nuisance. It has been in had order for
many years, and if it is not drained it must be
come stagnant and unwholesome, &c.” Now'
many years ago, why was not this matter
attended to by the Commiiteee. The whole
system looks like a farce, and I think tha pres
ent Inspector hinted as much as that in a report
he mode to the Committee at the close of the
last year. Let a square of Hutchison’s Island
be flooded for three hours, visible to the naked
eye of the citizens, on some bright morning
about this time of tho year, and what a stir
there would be. EQUAL RIGHTS
Cy* Another rumor has been circulated in
Boston with reference to the murder of Dr.
Parkman, namely, that a person has stated that
he saw the Prof, throw the “sledge hammer”
with which it was supposed that Prof. Web
iter killed Dr. Farkman by a blow’ on the head,
into Charles River, from Cambridge Bridge,
a id can point out the precise spot. Search will
immediately be made for it. The man states
that when he was going across the bridge, he
noticed tho Professor, whom ho knew very well
throw something, which wai done up in a news
paper, into the water, causing a loud splash as
it struck the water.
^Correspond^DC^Ttl^Dal^^tonUng'News^
New York, April 24. 1850.
§
It is understood that a convention is about
to be concluded between the Secretary of
State and Sr. De la Rosa, with the object of se
otifing to an American company, certain impor
tant privileges for tho establishment of a feasi
ble plan of transportation across the isthmus of
Tehuantepec. The company havealready made
arrangements for putting several excellent
steamers on this line from the city of New Or
leans to the mouth of the Guaacalcos river,
steamer suitable for the navigation of that
stream has been provided, and a route practica
ble (or waggons and mules has been opened
between the head of navigation on that river
and Tehuantepec on the Pucific. From this
Hi point to San Franciso steamers, already running
Htfr or to be placed on lines between that port and
■ Panama, will complete the communication.
Commodore McKeover has been assigned
by the Secretary of the Navy, to the command
of the Brazil lian Squadron. Ho reached Wash-
ington on Saturday last, having received orders
from the Department to repair there for further
instructions in regard to that important station,
for which be will sail in tho course of the next
four weeks.
Maysville, Ky., April 18.
A. fire broke out in a bath house on Second
street, About 3 o’clock this afternoon, which
swept some eight or ten tenements on Second
and Sutton streets, including the Presbyterian
church. All the houses, except the church,
were old frames. The Methodist church was
on fire, but the flames were extinguished before
much damage was done.
Mobile, April 19.
The British steamer Medway arrived here
to-day from Vera Cruz, with 110 passengers
and $500,000 in gold dust and specie.
She also brings accounts of a destructive firo
in the city of Mexico on the 29th of March, in
which property to the amount of over half t
million of dol'ars was consumed. A tremesi
doitj hurricane was prevailing at the time.
The steamer Ohio arrived here this morning,
but without any late news from California.
She brings $120,000 in gold dust. Iler news
from Havana is rather of an extraordinary
character, but little faith is put in it. Thut
there is great agitation there is very evident,
but the idea of any party negotiating a sale of
tho Island of Cuba to the United States, is
simply preposterous. A largo number of tho
Spanish nobility have arrived in the Ohio, on
their way to Spain, and other parts of Europe.
The banishment of Mdmo. Zolow.who iece.it-
ly arrived here, has created a good deal of
feeling; and unless the present Captain Gen
eral be soon suspended, it is very probable, I
think, thut many in the United Stntes who have
hitherto looked with indifference upon the Cuba
question, may be disposed to favor tho revolu
tionary movement. There are a large number
of influential Cubans in this city, whom, f
have no doubt, secretly fr,meat the agitation-
many aro rich, nnd possess large plantations
there, but being tinged with Republicanism by
their residence here, would gladly witness the
downfall of the present odions dynasty.
Tho Atlantic did wonders, it is said, in her
experimental trip, ar,d bets are made that she
makes her first voyage in eleven days, from
land to land, but I doubt it; though I think that
she will run the Cunurders very hard. She is of
about 3,000 tons, and cost over $500,000.
A groat dinner is to come off at the Irving
House on tho 1st of May, in honor of the Cal
ifornia Senators, Gwyn and Fremont. It is to
be given by soveral California merchants at
present in the city, ond will outshine, in splen
dor and magnificence, anything of the kind
that has taken place in this city for a very long
time. I hear that the dinner will be succeeded
by a May ball on the same ovening,
There is a good deal of dissatisfaction horo,
at the Compromise Committee of the Senate,
particularly among the out nnd out free-soilers-
Of course they won’t go far enough to satify
them, but, I have no doubt, tho result will bp
agreeable to the Amorican public; the vexed
question will at least, be settled for a time, and
that will be something gained.
The Johnny Bull’s did honor to their patron
Saint yesterday, by eating a first rate dinner at
the Astor House, doing full justice to the
excellent wines, and passing altogether a very
pleasant evening. Sii Henry Bulwer was not
present, and the British Consul returned thanks
in his behalf. The truth is, Bulwer is a con
ceited specimen of contomptible aristocracy
not the aristocracy one meets with in the
Saloons of London, but that bastard imitation
hich led to his being kicked out of the
Spanish Court.
Business is remarkably brisk just at present,
caused by the opening of the State Canals. The
wholesale housos down town aro thronged, and
cartmen have more than they can do. The ho
tels aro very full; in fact the city is remarka
bly well supplied with strangers, who are seen
in our public promenades, in our theatres, con
cert rooms, &e. The place which they inva
riably visit is now closed—the American Mu
seum, as Barnum is making extensive altera
tions, and will, when they are completed, have
a very handsome and commodious theatre ir.
the building. In the meantime he has pur
chased the Chinese]Museum, and is exhibiting
the curiosities, together with several Chinese of
the “ upper ten,” as he calls them, who are
said to have arrived here a week or two since,
but probably haye been living for some time
past in some obscure part of the city, and brought
out for the occasion. Barnum has a large Pa
goda mounted on a cart, which is drawn through
the city daily, as a perambulating advertise
ment. It Has a belt attached to each corner,
and is quite a pretty musical affair. The “ beau
tiful Chinese” lady is young, but I cannot sub
scribe to her beauty ; for I dont tkink it possi
ble that there could be a pretty Chinese; and
her little dumpy feet are the most frightful
things I ever saw. However, it takes Barnum,
and the people ure going the humbug with a
rush. CHARLEMAC.
The Compromise Arranged.—The Wash
ington correspondent of the N. Y. Commercial
says :
It is reported that the committee of thirteen
have hud a meeting, and have agreed to report
a scheme of adjustment, containing tho follow
ing provisions.
First, A bill for the admission of California
and the establishment of territorial governments
for Utah and New Mexico.
Second. Another bill for the settlement of
the Texas boundary question, by a large gra
tuity to that stute,guilder ihe name of indemni
ty for tho abandonment by her of claims thut
have no foundation in troth or justice.
Third, Another bill on the subject of fugi
tive slaves.
Fourth, The abolition of the slave trade in
tho District of Columbia.
I conceive myself to be perfectly safe in ad
opting this rumor for fuct, for such a scheme as
this is just that for which the committee was
sentout to .form,and if they have not yet formal
ly agreed upon it, they no doubt will do so at
some time between this and the time when
they are expected to report to the Senate.
The Washington correspondent of the Phil
adelphia Inquirer has the following additional
on this subject, nnd says thut it was presumed
by Mr. Clay. •
The right, of Texas to be divided into four
additional stntes, with or without slavery, as
the people within them may desire, whenever
there is a sufficient population, is to be fully rec
ognized.
The boundary between Texas nnd New Mex
ico is to be adjusted agreeably to the line anti
plan laid down in Mr. Clay’s resolutions.
The right of tho South to havo their fugi
tive slaves dlivered up is to be strongly and
emphatically declared.
S one difficulty was experiened with regard
to Mr Webster and Mr. Phelps, but it is said
they finally agreed to support a report based
upon these principles.
Messrs. Cooper and Berrien are not here—
it. is believed, however, that they will offer no
opposition.
Tho report, of course, is not to go iri for two
weeks.
Struck with a Fire Ball.—Tho British
brig Alcyone, from GInsgow, arrived at Boston
on Saturday, reports that, off Cape Cod, while
the men were aloft reefing the foretopsail, in the
middle of a snow storm, a ball of fire, larger
than an 18 pound shot, struck the mainmast,
and without any unusual noise, such as an ex
plosion, the mast was split in four pieces, and
went overboard with all the yards ttnd rigging
attached. The Alcyone had previously lost her
mizzen-mast.
Capital Punishment in Massachusetts.
—the following section of a law was introduced
into the State Senate on Friday last, and is sup
posed to have reference to tho case of Professor
Webster
“Any person under sentence of death at the
time of the passing of this act, will be com
mitted to the State Prison, to be confined at
hard labor until the expiration of one year
frointhe time of his sentence, and until the sen
tence of death be executed, and the Governor
shall issue his warrant authorizing and requir
ing such commitment.”
An Embryo King or Spain. — The last
papers from Havana contain an extract from a
Madrid gazette of the 2d March, of which the
following is a translation.
“Scarcely anything is spoken or thought: of
but • he interesting situation of her Majesty,
and the congratulations she receives from all
quarters. All the public bodies of every cl uss
in Madrid have repaired to the Palace, and if
it weie possible for you to transport yourselves
to this city, you would witness the great satis
faction depicted in the countenance of all tho
inhabitants.”
The Senate had adopted a vote of felicita
tion on that auspicious event. On the same
day a deputation ' from the nobility of Spain
waited upon the Queen, and a loyal address
was delivered. The Queen, in her reply, said:
“I receive with tender emotion the expres-
sionjof your prayers, that my successor (if Heav
en crowns our hopes) may see, from his earliest
days, our nation completely restored from the
evils it has suffered.”
It seems that Her Majesty has already de
termined on the gender of the embryo respon
sibility.
Washington, Tuesday, April 23.
The Nicaragua treaty was submitted to the
Senate yesterday, and read tho- first time. Its
terms are very favorable to the United States.
England abandons the protectorate of the Mos
quito shore, and admits the claims of Nicara
gua and the United States relative to territory
and building the canal. -
ET The Mobile papers announce that A.
B. Meek, E«qr., is engaged in writing the his
tory of Alabama-
Robbery.—-At Atlanta on Monday night last
a chap sojourning at the Tennessee House and
calling himself Julius Jackson, en- iced an old
man named Foote, into the outskirts of tho
city, and robbed him of a note for about two-
hundred dollars. The robber has been arrest
ed. A correspondent of the Intelligencer sug
gests, that a committee be appointed, whose
business it should be to enquire once a month,
oroftenerif need be, how many and who are
the loafing, idling, and vicious characters that
infect the city.
BP* The bill providing for the election of
Prosecuting Attorney by tho people of Penn
sylvania, has passed finally. In the Senate
there were only three nays.
E5r" Commodore Parker, of the United
States frigate Raritan, lately arrived at Wash
ington from Havana, thinks the fears of a
speedy invasion of Cuba aro unfounded.
The American Minister at Chili.—
Tho Chilians are proud of being considered
as resembling the United States in their institu
tions and enterprise. Tltey bestowed upon
our minister, Hon. Bulie Peyton, on his arri
val last February, civilities which evinced the
highest respect for his government, and a sin
cere desire to be more closely united in sym
pathy and association with our people.
U. S. Agent at China.—The Washington
letter to the Philadelphia North American, says
that the President will recommend the diplo
matic agency at China—Minister Resident—
to be raised to a full mission. The people
are impressed with ceremony and distinc
tion, and our commercial interests have
suffered for the want of more appearance, to
give the American embassy the advantages
which are enjoyed by other nations.
Fatal Railroad Accident.—As the train
was leaving Jersey City, yesterday morning for
Philadelphia, it run over a cow. One of the
passengers put his head out of the car to see
the difficulty, when his head Btruck one of the
telegraph posts, and he was instantly killed.
The Webster Meeting.—The meeting
that was proposed some days since, in New
York, to endorse the position of Mr. Webster
on tbe Calitornia and slave question,has been
abandoned, as it might be misconstrued as an
offset to the great Clay meeting at Castle Gar
den, awhile ago.
Loss or one of the Camels.—One of the
lot of seven camels which recently passed
through Hagerstown from Baltimore, en route
for St. Louis, died in the neighborhood of
Hancock, ,M<).
From-Mexico.—Accounts from the city of
Mexico to the 11th ins'., states thut the chole
ra had not diminished. It hud appeared at
Quoretaro, within fourteen leagues of the cap
ital. In some places, ns at Morelia, La Pie-
dud Silao and La Luz, the hurricane had
driven tho epidemic away. Thus at La Luz
there were on Thursday fifty deaths, on Fri
day -twenty, and on Saturday not a single one.
At Piedad. containing a population of 3000,
about 1000 had died. At many other points
tho disease was raging, undin some of them
very violently. The people of the capital
were fearful that it would soon attack them.
The Indians continued their depredations in
tho State of Chihuahua.
They attacked the hacienda of Carmen and
u sharp fight took place, in the course of which
sotno on both sides were killed.
The Committee on Public Credit has report
ed a bill for tho regulation of the foreign
debt. It provides for a national fund of£10-,
241,658, ut 3 per cent, interest, to be upplied
exclusively to the English debt, for which the
necessary bonds shall beiasued in London. The
new bonds are to be given in exchange for the
consolidated fund of 5 per cent., with the con
sent of creditors. For the sum of two million
dollars a receipt in full is to he given to the
United States for tho indemnity due in Muv,
1351,and for u million and a half a receipt is
to he given for the amount due in 1852.
During the performances of the Indian opera
company at Vera Cruz, a most diabolical plot
was hatched by some scoundrels. It was noth
ing loss than when tho theatre was full to set it
and otjier pnrts of the city on fire ut tho same
time, ond then to take advantage of the con
fusion to rob and plunder with impunity- The
conspiracy was fortunately discovered in time,
und four or five persons suspected of complici-
tv in the affair were thrown into the Custle of
San Juan.
The Nicaragua Treaty.—The Washing
ton Correspondent of the N. Y. Courier says:
Tho Treaty with, Sir Henry Bulwer was
signed and concluded yesterday, after negotia
tions extending through nearly the whole term
of the present Administration. In every aspect,
both in the advantages secured to the United
States and in the happy influence w.hich it is
destined to exercise on commerce and civili
zation, this treaty is the noblest and highest
diplomatic achievement of the age.
Great Britain stipulates not to settle, occupy,
fortify or exercise any right of dominion Cen
tral America or the Musquito coast; in other
words, she agrees to surrender the Territorial
acquisitions, which were made by virtue of an
alledged pro-teotornte to the King of Musqu to.
This treaty liberates every part of Central
America from British bondage, and attaches
that confederacy to the-United States, by the
obligations of gratitude and interest.
It re-establishes the Monroe doctrine, which
was abandoned by Mr. Polk’s administration,
on the most substantial footing, by enforcing
the American principle more efficaciously than
was ever before asserted.
It secures the construction of the ship canal
connecting the two great oceans, by which more
than ten thousand miles of dangerous navigation
will be saved, and the transhipment of merohan-
dize and produce will be rendered unnecessary,
and enlists the capital and co-operation of Great
Britain in the immediate advancement of that
vast and most important enterprise.
The Correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
speaking of the alleged abandonment of the
Monroe doctrine, by Mr. Polk’s administration
says :—
This is a great mistake. The Monroe doc
trine was twice solemnly avowed and affirmed
by the late administration in tho teeth of Great
Britain and Spain, on the subject of California
and the peninsula of Yucatan, nnd this during
an expensive war with Mexico, nnd at a period
when a protest of that sort was likely to be at
tended by serious consequences.
The Irish Exiles.—The arrival of the
Irish exiles at Van Dieman’s Land, has already
been mentioned. They are located as follows:
M’Manus, at Norfolk : Meagher, at Camp
bell Town; O’Dogherty, at Oatlnnds; Martin,
ntBothwell; and Donughue, at Hobart Town.
They are all stated to have sufficient funds for
their support, wilh the exception of tbe latter,
who represented to the Governor that he was
without funds, and requested therefore that he
might be permitted to reside at Hobart Town,
in order that he might follow his profession of
a law-writer. This was granted him. Smith
O’Brien obstinately refused to accept a ticket
of leave, and was, therefore, on the 31st of
October despatched to Maria Island, where he
will be under strict surveillance. He had, how
ever, an opportunity of first speaking with
Martin and O’Doghertv.
Georgetown, April 24.
We understand that planting generally, is
behind hand; and as on the length of the season
very much depends the extent of the Cotton
crop, we append this, the. first, to the category
of accidents, upon which to predicate short
crops and remunerating prices.
Important from Venezuela.—A letter dated
Curncos, March 27, announces that President
Monagas had succeeded in making an arrange
ment with the English government by which
the threatened blockade of the town by Admi
ral Dondonald, has been averted.
The Venezuelan Government are to pay
$800,000, without interest, for the loss of
piopertv and imprisonment of English sub
jects during the late revolution.
The Montesquie Case.—The telegraph
announces that the trial of this young man at
St. Louis resulted in a disagreement of the ju
ry-
Elf Sir George Simpson notices in the Mon
treal Courier a statement of a Washington let
ter some time since to i New York paper, as
to his attempting to overreach the United
States, in offering to sell them the Hudson’s
Buy Company property. He says he should be
sorry to think that his reputation for common
sense was so low upon tho scale as to need
that he should defend himself from this writer'
accusation of seeking to sell to tbe United
States government property worth “twenty-five
thousand dollars” for the trifling advance, above
its real value, of only "one million of dollars!”
Mr, Baldwin, who sometime ago murdered
his own brother-in-law at St. Louis, and was
acquitted upon trial, on the plea of insanity, it
is stated has since murdered his father
Funeral honors to Mr. Csih 8BB ^
The Charleston papers contain full iB( j
teresting accounts of the funeral honors pajj "
the remains of Mr Calhoun, in tlintcii v l "
Thursday and Friday last. We have "
room to day for the following extracts fronT
Courier. Tho editor says : " l * 111
The obsequies of Mr. Calhoun were •
brttted, in this city, yesterday und the da'h'
fore, with imposing magnificence and i>, '
sivo solemnity ; and during the whole tiJ.T'
city was clad in the habiliments of woe Ti
procession formed, on Thursday, to receiv i
remains of the deceased, was'tho large., f
the kind ever known in our citv—the citi
turned out en masse to join it—and there
numerous attendance from tho other ns *"
the Stut.e and from other States, if, of
street through which the procession „„!!!?
the temples of religion, the public buildL.r
tlic’city, aud the fronts of private dwell; °
were tastefully draped with the emblem. I
mourning. On Meeting street, the f ru " °
Hayno street—that great mart and avenue",
trade—was closed up by largo sable curtain,
and across Meeting street was suspended’
banner, bearing on its several sides, the
—“The Nation mourns,” “South C?Ji"‘
mourns.” The Citadel and its Parapets J./
also appropriately dressed wiih streamers .,1
rherosettes, und other funeral decoraii 0 „
banners of the seumen, who numerously »■’
tended the procession, headed by the Rev \\
B. Yates, of the Mariner’s Church, bore th
inscription, “The Children of Old Ocean mourn
for him, —a most appropriate tribute to the
noble efforts of the honored dead, in theunr t
1812, in behalf of “Free Trade and Sailed
Rights.” Tne children of the various school*
carried banners thirty in number, decorated
with the arms and emblems of tho .«■» >
Stntes of the Union.
During the entire dny, there was a universal
suspension of business, public and private-
arid closing of stores and offices, of every
kind—with even stricter observance than u-
sunllv attends the Sabbath. The tailing „f a ||
the Church bells, the firing of minute guns, by
detachments of Artillery, at various points’
and by the Revenue Cutter, off the Battery,the
solemn relief the muffled drum, und the plain
tive dirge of tho military band, uddeil largely
to the funeral character of the occasion. After
the Procession was over, the body of the de
ceased, enclosed in an iron case or sarcophn-
gus. (in which it was brought from Washing,
ton,) adapted to the shape, formed of two sec
tions, an upper and lower one, and closely
screwed together, was deposited under a mug.
nifirent catafalque or canopy, at the City
Hall, where it lay in state during tho rest of
the day, the night and the following morning,
until removed for sepulture, under tho charge
of a body guard and watch, composed of 200
citizens. While thus lying in state, it was vis
ited by vast crowds of our citizens, of all age.,
sexes, and conditions, going in a continuous
stream up the front steps, under the beautiful
arches, formed of native Palmettoes and then
foliage,and through tho frontdoor, and passing
out of temporary passage ways,provided on the
west side of the building. The gentler sex, in
paying their tribute, threw beautiful and fra
grant flowers on the patriot’s bier, and literally
covered the sarcophagus with bouquets. Our
negro population were also admitted to the priv
ilege of visiting the remains of the deceased,-
and embraced it in considerable nun-ben.
Truly may it be said tbatyoung nnd old, die in
telligent and beautiful, the public dignitary and
the private citizen, rich and poor, h-j.ad and
free, all united in paying the heartfelt tribute of
mingled honor und sorrow to the beloved and
illustrious dead. The whole ceremonial consti
tuted a solemn and imposing pageant,unsurpass
ed if not unique in ourland—the arrangements
were all of the most exquisitely tasteful and
appropriate character, reflecting the highest
credit on the authorities and agents, who de
signed and conducted them, and the perfect
order and reverence preserves throughout, un
broken by a single impropriety or untoward in
cident, were so exemplary as to excite the ob
servation of both citizens and strangers. It
was indeed worth living for, to bo thus affec
tionately mourned and universal honored in
death.
Dreadful Calamity and Loss of Life.
Cincinnati, April 23.
Awful Steamloat Accident—One Hundred
Lives Lost 1 .— A terrible steamboat disnater,alv^
tei de.l by fearful loss of life, occurred this
morning, about 11110 o’clock. Tho splendid
steamer Belle of the West, which cleared from
this port, loaded with California emigrants, ,
bound for St. Louis, hud gone hat a mile be
low Warsaw, Ky , when her boiler burster 1 .
It is confidently Rsserted that not less thanone
hundred persons were burnt to deuth aud
drowned. The scene that followed the explo
sion is represented ns having been the mosta"-
fill ever witnessed on the Western River. The
officers saved their lives by immediately jump
ing 1 overboard, and swiming ashore. TiieBella
of the West wn» owned in this city, nnd
insured for $8000. She is said to be totally
lost.
[another despatch ]
[Telegraphed for tho lialtimorc Clipper ]
Madison, April 23.
Farther Particulars.—An eye witness ta
the horrible scene intending the destruction o'
the Bello of the West, (which, it appears, "o'
burnt, instead of having collapsed her boiler)
gives facts in connection with the calamity
He says that tho fire wus discovered at about
12<J o’clock, in the hold, when she was imme
diately run ashore. She was made last on
stago planks run out.
Up to this moment the flames had not burst
forth. The after-hatch wa« then raised for
purpose of getting water into the hold, "j
such was the pressure of the flames, that a
efforts to quell them were of no avail. - * 8
total number of passengers is estimated at c
hundred, among whom were two compare 8 ' 1
California emigrants, and about 30 familm*
removing Westward. It is ascertained from I *
register thntover 60 souls perished, and p rc ^
ably as many more have been lost, whose ns® f
were not enrolled. . ,
Such waathe progress of the fire, that he 0
the passengers could get out of tho e tatern ,".
all communication between the after on
and forward part of the boat wus cut 0® ,
all were either compelled to jump o v f r *
or perish in the flames. At the time the “
fell in a lady and gentleman, with a chi
his arms, were stending between the cmBi
A large number of horses and cattle
nearly all burnt to death.
Versailles, Ky-, April 1 - ^
Tho extensive bagging and rope iac { J
Mess. Graddy & Cotton, at Clifton, ® ^
Kentucky river, was entirely consumed j
at 1-o’clock this morning. The loss it 8 ®
ted between $20,000 and $‘.’5,000- * e
no insurance, 1