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POBT.aty.
From the Connecticut Observer.
On tli«! Heath of the wife of a Clergyman,
du-in® the sickness of her husband.
Dark sorrow brooded o’er the Pastor’s
home.—
The hous hold-prayer was. silent, and
the group
Tnaf sang their hymn of praise at even
and morn
Now droop’d in pain,—or with a noise
less step
Tended the sick. It was a time of
woe:—
Days ineasur’i out in anguish, and
drear nights
Mocked the eye that waited for the
the dawn.—
They, who fro n youth by hallow’d
vow* conjoin’d
And side bv side its adverse fortunes
foil’d,
Jlvart.—an a '0 lizing warfare fought
VV nh Natuv ’» stern destroyer. Tidings
past
From couch to couch,—how stood the
doubtful strife
H’wixt life and death. They might not
lay the r hand
Upon iicn other’s throbbing head,—or
breathe
The words of comfort, for Disease had
set »
A gnlph between them.—
Hark!—what
sound appai’d
The sufferinj; husband?—-’Twas a
snouriier’s sob
Beside bis bed.—
' “My .Mother docs not
breathe.—
{l The.y say she's dead."
Art thou the mes
senger,
Poor buy !—- from whom (he love that
gontiy sooth’d
Thy era lie avail,- that mil thy sports
did trace
Th? g-eat Creator’s name,—and on
thro’ life
Mi I ail its wanderings and adversi
ties
Would still have, ttbtng to thee untir’d,
unchang’ii,-—
Is hi tied out forever?—Thou dost
speak
A loss thou'eanst not measure.- —
She, thr
friend,—
The M ,ther, imag’d in these daugh
ters hearts,
First, dearest, bed-loved,—who joyed
to walk
'l It" meek companion of a JVfan of God
Ha li g ven her hand to that Destroyer’
grasp
Who 1 ifleth the clay cottage.—sending
forth
The immortal inhabitant. Fearless slv
! i. d
Eanh’s vestments by.—
And thou, yvliose
tenderest trnst
Did stiongly r vet on tnat marble
form,—
Wh?$e confidence in that cold breasl
was seal’d
S 'i f a les'.ly and long—lift up thy soul,—
“Slv is not here’—but risen.” Shew
th* faith
Wh c!t thou ha^t preach’d to others.—
be ils power
In ihe dark night of trouble. Take
1 h * cross,—
A> ''on thy bruised heart pour fresh
ly r li
Th, pirt of thy Lord,—teaching thy
dock
To lerm Jehovah’s lessons,—and be
still,
l. a. s.
MSdoaLii Aaraa * s.
DREADFUL CATASTROPHE
ANI) LOSS OF LIVES.
JVeiu York, May 5.—Rarely does it
fall to our lot to record a more af
flictive ami unexpected calamity,
than on the present occasion. At a
quarter before six o’clock, yesterday
afternoon, Ihe large netv structure,
belonging to Phelps and Peck, on the
corner of Clilf and Fulton streets, and
occupied as counting rooms and a
warehouse for the very extensive bu-
sin -ss of that firon, suddenly fell in
wiih a startling and tremendous crash,
causing the foundations of the build
ings in the whole neighborhood to
trem de The edifice was of brick,,
six Tories high, resting upon a gran
ite b isenent of upright blocks or pi
lasters, of the description ordinarily
in use. The building occupied about
100 feet on Cliff street, and 75 upon
Fjlton. Two thirds of the pile
comprising the whole front upon Cliff,
and say fi iy feet upon Fulton street,
it t» severed perpendicularly from
top to bottom, and fell at once into a
be io of broken ruins. So sudden was
the giving away, and the fall, that a
gentleman, who was at the instant
passing •« the opposite side, in Cliff
Street, saw the granite blocks as it
were atari aet from the wall. He |
supposed it to be an optical illusion'
occasioned by the glancing of the
eye; but in the same instant, looking
upward, the whole edifice was (imul-
taneously tumbling down, and his a-
gilily alone enabled him to escape.
The whole building to the topmost
loft was filled with goods of great
weight and intrinsic value. The luw-
.er stories were stored with iron and
tin, and the three upper lofts cram
med to their utmost capacity, with
cotton. The loss of property, inde
pendently of the building, will be
very great. But this loss weighs as
the dust only in the balance, in com
parison with the loss of life which is
at this moment wringing so many bo
soms with anguish, and the unspeaka
ble agnonies of the mangled though
not lifeless bodies, that have been ta
ken from the ruins. The number of
lives lost by this distressing event, is
not yet known. The time of it§ oc
currence, we were on the way to
meet a Committee, of which Mr.
Phelps was one. He had left his
■‘.Hunting room a short time before,
and was at the moment of the catas
trophe in attendance at the monthly
meeting of the Public Schools.—
The other partner, Mr. Peck is in
the country.
Mr Thomas C. Goddard, the
book-keeper, and Mr. Joseph otokes.
ihe c^ufid’-nti.il Ulerk, were' in the
counting* room on the second floor eu-
aged in wiiting at their desks, at the
'•me of the (all; and Mr. Alfred K
Seymour, anothoifraj[^rk r .was in th
ouol ing I outn on ifl^first floor. All
dree were whelmed in rite ruins and
crushed to death. Mr. Pitkin, also a
clerk, was standing at the front door,
• ml saved himself by ju aping one
'ide the moment he heard the crack-
tog, and running across the street.—
Ir. 0 Neal, of Utica, a customer,
vas ascending the-firsi flight of stairs
tl tlie moment, and as it were by a
miracle escaped with only a leu
slight bruises, having worked his
way out of the ruins, about lifieen
ninutes after the walls fell in.
artman, named Barney J ckson, who
vas on the side walk, was partially
buried in the roins hut was fortunate
ly rescued in about two hours, with
only a broken arm. and a few bruises.
His horse was killed, as was also one
belonging to lhe city corporation,
'limb was standing in the street.
I s ioipossi' 1 i veil yet to give an
accurate account ol this melancholy
•ccurrence, in all its particulars.—
One or the other of our firm was at
tiie scene of the calamity most of ihe
night; and u r e hare spent several?
hours there this morning; but such is
still the confusion, and so great the
un emoved piles of ruins ; that the ex
lent of suffering and death is not yet
scortained.
Of the laborers at work in the
9iorc, three were taken out alive be
fore nine o’clo-k, one of whom it was
reported died in a few minutes, and
the other two (colored men) were ta
ken in the fiist instance into Mr.
Simonson’s Druggist ^jliop, on the
£bhi6t ; cf Fulton and void streets,
and was kindly to, One 6?
them was found to be very badly in
jured, his head being deeply cut and
covered with blood, alid one of his
shoulders dislocated, besides olliei
wounds, some of which appeared to
be internal His case is believed lo
be extremely critical. The other
was not so badly hurt, his wounds be-
ing principally confined to jflS^and and
arm, which were a good deni cut and
bruised. Tfce shoulder of the form
er was restored to ils proper place
by Dr. S. and such other relief af
forded as could be rendered at Ihe
moment, alter whieh’they were sent
to the hospital. We understand they
are hroihers-in-law, and reside in De
laney street.
Barney Jackson, mentioned above,
was carried into a neighboring bouse,
where his wounds were examined by
Dr. Carroll. He had supposed his
arm was broken in two places, hut it
was found on examination .that such
was not the fact. His head and face
were apparently much bruised, but
it is believed, that with proper atten
tion he will soon recover, ^e was
carried home to his friends in Delan
ey street. He must have remained
under the ruins more than two hours,
and remarked that during this time
he considered himself, in effect a
dead man.
About half past 12 o’clock the hand
n f Mr Stokes was seen projecting
fr»m beneath Ihe ruins, and grasping
the pen with which he had been wri
ting; it will be many hour* before he '< to the disaster, failed of being held,
can be removed: the body, from the in consequence of the non-attendance
weight on it, must have been entirely
crushed.
. A colored man tvas taken out about
I o’clock, and carried to the house of
Alderman Harper, opposite, and a-
bout six o’clock this morning, was
sent to the hospital dreadfully man
gled. As near as we could ascertain,
he is named Thoiniis Hookes. "We
saw the dead body of another colored
man taken from the ruins at 9 o’clock
this morning.
The gentlemen who have thus been
so suddenly cut off, were highly es
teemed and beloved. Mr. Goilda.d
is well known to be the author oi his
system ol book-keeping. Mr. Stokes
was a young gentleman of great worth,
sou of our excellent-fellow citize n,
Mr. Thomas Stokes, and the confi
dential clerk of Mr. Phelps. Mr.
Seymour has been in (he employ ol
Phelps and Peck for live years, and
was deservedly esteemed; he was
from the neighborhood of Utica.
At two o’clock this morning, the,
bodies of two laborers were oyiricai
ed from the ruins—one of them was
tound in a sitting position, near the
front, lifeless—lie is said tv be a for
eigner^ named Pearsall; from ttie ap
pearance of the corpse it was sup
posed iliut he lived soi»e time allei
■he uuildiug tell.
In Cliff street; .the second door
from Pnelps and Peck’s, a gentleman
was cunfilled to Ins sick bed. vei>
of several of the gentleman invited.—
Had it been held as appointed, it
probably would have continued until
the fall of Ihe building.
The cause of this painful disas
ter is apparent to all who visit the
ruins. The building was erected in
‘.lie winter, and there was little co
hesion of brick and mortar. There
is neithei hair nor lime enough in the
mortar now generally used. In this
vast structure there were neither
party-walls, as in so great a 'building 1
there should have been, nor anchors,
49 ihe iron for connecting the materi
als and adding strength to the build
ing, are called. Worst of all, the
Minins of the mass that has fallen,
were not morticed into the timbers of
the section that rema ns; and there
ppears to have been a complete
At the term of the Campbell
perior Court, commencing onili d ;
of April, Tames M. Smith, was
tenced to five years itnpnsoniue«
the Penitentiary, for the death
Philip Gatewood, 1 whom he ki
last autumn.
At the same Court, .sent
death (to be carried intoexecu
on the 4’th of May j was passed
Cherokee Indian' called Old
for the murder of a youth m
Mays, about six years ago, at a
called Walking Stick, in that pi
Campbell county formerly Ca
It appears, that while Old Man
shooting at a mark, aud alter lm
had repeatedly missed'fire, May
pi'ayfulnes, undertook to give hin
word of command; and that on
nouncingog the word ‘'lire,”
Indian wheeled and shot him
escaped and resided among lm
low, who had not ioi some t "
able lo assist hiuiself in inoring,
(lie fright was so ^real, tluu In Joi*V"
ud from Ins tied and slood creel on
the chamber floor.
In the great a»xi. ty 4o gel those
who were underneath the unite, s< v
oral persons woe mjo t-iT by the ail
ing of tiab-s ot toll<u <5t oilier goods.
A lout 9 o'clock, J ho liuulei, a
valchruaij, received ihe iurct*. oi a
la.go Hale on his bioasi, which d<-
P'lved Ilia of the ability "1 speaking
for some time. He, however, finally
was abie to speak, and when we saw
bun last, a physician was with him,
who thought him not dangerously in
jured.
The moment news of (he catastro
phe was received at the Ci y Uail,
Mr. Justice Wyman sent a strong
corps of the Police, to pieservc oi-
de:, and prevent the destruction ol
properly. Alderman Sharpe of the
Second Ward, &nd Alderman Stevens
ol the I’hiid, were likewise pjamipt-
iy on the ground, and were indeiat-
igable in then labors until a very late
hour.
lu order to call the assistance of
tho Hook and Ladder Companies
hastened to the spot, and worked
with gueat diligence, not unaccom
panied with danger for many hours.
They were directed by Air. Uitlick,
the Chief Engineer, assisted by Mr.
Weiimau, the late 1 engineer. These
gentlemen are both entitled to great
praise for their exertions. During
the night, the inhabitants in the neigh
borhood illuminated their windows,
which, with the torches of the en
gines, afforded sufficient lig it lo the
gunJ'-uhin : A,ho were removing the
goods, &c. Weaned ?ul oy * a ‘ :
bpis they had wrought, further
were discontinued shortly afior 2 o’,
clock this morning, but were resumed
again at an early hour—the Mayor iu
person directing the Police.
Thejprowds of people collecting to
vie ' this scene of destruction, which
we confess our inability adequately
to describe, have been very great.—
There were probably ten thousand
people crowtjpd into the several
streets leading to the spot, betore
seven o’clock last evening; and there
could not hav . been less than that
number at 8 o’clock, this morning.
It is moulded as a remarkable
providence, Mr
his counting room but a short time
before the accident, that this is the
second instance within a year, that
the same merciful interposition has
preserved his valuable life. He had
been prevented last year from get
ting on board the sleam boat Gen.
J.tckson, at Peeskill, on his return lo
ibis city, a few hours before this un
fortunate explosion, only by the ur
gent and unusual solicitations of the
Captain of a sloop, who at length pre
vailed on hiri to take a passage on
board Ins vessel.
It is said also to be worthy of re
mark, that a meeting of a number of
our most israltifble citizens, which
was to huve been held at Mr. Phelps’
commencing about tin hour previous j£«r.
breaking off, exactly as if the foimda- i try men until he recently en
lion of a part of the building had giv-j himself as an emigrant—at
en way, and there was no comeclii g some of the Indian* Were sob
fixtures between the two portions incensed, that they iitJsrtrfeda
of the edifice, by which the whole! him, and he was apprehended,
strength should have been united.— | gentleman, present at the tri a j
consequence was. that the build- forms that it was the opinion of ’
jng h >s yielded to the pressure of the
enormous weight of iron, tin, wiie,
cotton aud other goods stored within j ill will had previo islyovisted bet
i<—the balance not being evenly pre- the part ies, and the gun of Old
served. The store had been occupied had again and again suapped.il
but three, or four w r eek‘, and it is ev- ; chance-medley, or nian-slattelil
Idem that the laws ol gravitation have j the most. A- pctiiiun lor a r
onli preserved it so long. Any con-; was even, talked of, but dro
stdcrable disarrangement ol the equi- 1 probably from the difficulty j
lioriuin, would have produced toe bended of getting a bill of
same result at an earlier day. But through the Legislature.
II IS not the moment for indulging in j The woman in DcKatb <
speculations as to the causes ol the j charged with the murder ofh
calamity, while so many hearts are fant. was acquitted at the Sup
adiing at the effects — he most tern- Court of that county, for want of
hi. d \ hit it may > el be unknown. ‘ idcnce.-Jl/rrcon Tel
JCjP* >L Gouda i d, ' ne o! the de-
ccasi’d, was a most estimable and J*sfltOPO4l5LiS
wjMfiy man. He was industrious. For publishing a weekly Paper<d
bm p_.«». iie !• ft a j-nin. iou.> and j * ryville B. Ten.
excellent laiiliiy, in narrow circi.in- ■ to nr. caim.d tub
«• n s .*v.Us, i ij.’Uons Idr loci'- re- MARYVILLE RELIGIOUS AND
to I ■ vi!i fv received at tills office,
i <).n * SlRU’T. — Hull past 12 o’-
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Uie si. cue of death. The body of poor ; ature and General Science.
Goddard has been taken out —his Head i. a P°l°!iy. we think, need be-
doubted over upon his breast. The °* *^l s
body of Young Seymour is seen, but
not yet removed.
The
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^THIi subscribers promise pubis'
. ... Newspaper, under the above tide,
Ue have jua) .01 limed I rum devoted to ihe interests of Religion,
enlightened community. As far
information extended there is no i
paper in this State, and* consi cu
dead bodies of thretf black 1 th 're is a great deficiency of
men have been taken out during the : °h ,a > n ing information on many ....
morning. | *“ bject8 ’ amon B a lar 6 c I'°r“°n oft
PnE o’clock.--The body of,Mr. I “Knowledge is a powci;” i
Stokes is seen; hut it will be some j P e ?ds no labored argument to pro
hours betore the rubbish can he re-! ' s< ' s8 ? ni,al - the prosperity ami
■ . , ness ol individuals and nations. It
moved /" in it. handmaid of religion, and the bain
I he ri.ot ol the superb three story I civil and religious freedom. Exp
dwelling adjoining is di-stmyed. and observation abundantly prove,
Commercial Advertiser. other things being equal, that com
is the most happy, virtuous arid rc
ble, the most ol whose inhabitantse
IMA/ENSl I’Y OF CREATION es me gn alest amount of intelligent
“Who through vast immensity can : thcr< * ,s 110 ®f phtaing van
pierce”, 1 ,,UPrei 't' 'K information «o cheap
See worlds on worhls compose one uni-, a ne ' vs P a P''r. Those ills
V( . rgP . v not the means lo obtain, nor the t
Observe how system into system runs, ] P P1 ' USC Wge volumes, may, at an f
What oilier planets circle other suns;
What varied boings people every star,
JMay tell why God ha made us as we a newspaper, by its regular!
arc.” j keeps up a pleasing and beatlhful
Pope. | ment of mind; bv its agreeable?
; it affords a mental feast to every di
Some astronomers huve computed of taste; and it causes many an
that they are no lesss than 75,000,- pass ..wa> agreeably and profitably
non Ol suns in this universe.- The w otherwise be spent in idle
Bx«jJ‘tari are all suns, having, like j PIw N op PUBLICATION,
ovr sun, numty Ci.'* o*an«ls revolving , £Vio pap s Will be devoted to re'
round them. The solar SystbOli or ! a, ? (1 ll tei : ary information, to the defr
that to which we belong, has auoui. 0, ‘th c doctrines of grace, as taught
qn nlanr-is nrimarv iml secondary Bible, itod the government and (k
ou plan, is primary, anil seLonuaiy, 0 f t |, P church as constituted bv G:
belonging to it. The circular field his Apostles- ?nd to thed<fence d
of space which it occupies is in diam- benevolent Instititt ons as we think
eter three thousand six hundred millions ca cuiated to profiles the best inte
ol miles, and that which it controls maii.aml the universal 9 P ^ea ! 1 ^ 0,
much greater. That sun which is • of ^hrist. One page
. ii , a to domestic and foreign news
nearest neighbor to ours is called Sir- mainingpage to advertisements and
ius, distant fiom our sun about lWen- mis ellaneous matter,
ty-two billions of miles. Now if aH ; While we shall 1 endeavor, mildhi
the fixed stars are as distant from , advocate-the cause of tr^
each other as Sirius is from our sun: ffhSS
I as a retnarkahlb n f n | H of the 75 mill ® ccles,a8Uca ' b'gotty. In therein
pi | . • i M iJii 0 ' 0UI * 0,ai sj 8, ®ms ot tne to mill- f HC t 9 an j th e expression of opinr,
I. . * "i ,B T ,on * 8un8 > what imagination can hall be governed solely by •
” grasp the immensity of creation! Ev- trulh and the genera) good. And
ery sun of the 75 millions, controls a i l0,umn8 8 haH ever be open to t
Jij „„„ .. m nnn Ann nnn communications, even front those wM
Re d of space 10,000000,000 of differ f 10raUB i n ’ 8ent iment, on an;
miles in diameter. Who can sur- that comes within the design oft
vey a plantation containing 75 mill- per
ions of circular fields^ each ten bill
ions of miles in diameter! Such,
however, is one of the plantations of
Him—“who has measured the waters
in the hollow of his hand, and meted
out heaven with a span, and compre
hended thedust of the earth in a meas
ure, weighed the mountains in scales,
& the hillsin a balance;” he who “sit
ting upon the orbit of the earth,
stretches out the b eavens as a cur
tain, and spreadeth them ont as a
to tentd wellin.”—Millennial Harbin-
D. HOYT.
S. W. JtfeCRAK
TERMS.
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be paid writfoii. the year. The ti> sl
ber will be issued in the early
June next, if not sooner.
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