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BY J A 31 ES GARDNER. JR.
HJli CONST 1T LIT IUN A LIST.
OFFICE IX .Mci.VTOSII-rfTREET,
Third door from fits North- Wfst corner of Broad-sl.
of LAND by Administrators Exrculors or Ounr*
dians, arc required, by law, to be held on the first
Tuesday in the m«nth, between the Inn.is 0 j f, ; ii j u y,,.
forenoo'ii and three in Uy; afiernoon, at the C‘>uit
iioft-e in whirli the property -is situate. Notice of
these-sales mast be given iu a public Gazette sixty
nws previous to the day of sale.
Sales ol NKIiROKS must be at public auction, on the
lirst Tuesday of the month', between the Usual hours, of
sale, at the place of public sales in the county where
the Letters Testamentary, ty- Adminis ration, or Guar
dianship, may have.been granted, first gjvingTsiXTV
f)A vs’*n*tice tlwM-eof, in one of tiie public <«az'“ttes of
this .State, and at the dour of the Court House where
Bue.li sab-!? are to be held. * ,
Notice for the sale of Property must be given .
in l.ke manner fiprtv days previous to ila.y of sale.
Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must
be published for forty days. 4 .;
Notice that application wiil be made to the Court of Or
dinary for leave to sell LAND, must be pubjished for
FOUR MONTHS.
Notice for leave to sell MF.GIIOES, ntnst !> ■ published
FOUR MONTH , before any order absolute can be givqu
by the Court, ,
FRIDAY -MORNING, DKFKM HER 4, 1846,
O"We have received ihe I Jili and con
cluding No. of the Southern Culliva or, for
154(3. Tljc following is lhe conclusion of
an address to the patrons of that valuable
agricultural (taper;
•‘Having said thus much of what we dp
fire you should, and we think those of yon
who value the work, ought to do, let ps now
say what we have done and are doing to make
the work worthy ot the snpp »rt of your
selves, your friends and neighbors. We
have already ordered new type, and ‘‘the
January number will appear iu an entire
new dress, and we hope greatly improved in
appearance. V\ e have made and are making
arrangements lor its embe iishmeni whit ele
gant engravings, in all the departments of i
husbandry. To do ail these thing requires a i
large expenditure of money, which we have I
made, relying upon the liberality and justice
of the Planters of the Southern Slates to \
sustain ns. How fully our confidence in
their liberality and justice vv i j 1 be justified, )
.remains for them to make known.
This, then, is the appropria e time for ac
tion on your part—and if the effort be made ;
with that zeal and energy which you are
wont to bestow on any enterprise in which
von feel an interest, your success will be as
certain as it will be triumphant.
In conclusion, permit its to repeat, our de
sire that every subscriber to the present vo
lume will immediately forward his subscrip
mm for the next volume, and use some ex
ertion to induce his friends and neighbors to
unite wish linn.”
[ From the .V. (). Picayune, Dee. !.]
LATEST FHO3I THE All3lV.
Monclova and Chihuahua Taken.—-
Expedition against Victoria—-March j
ot" the American Forces upon Sal
tillo.
Tue steamship McKim, J. B. Peck,
jrnaster, anived last evening from ihe
Brazos, which place she left on the :24th
hist. The McKim brought the mail and
a large number of passengers. Amongst
the latter are .Majors McLean and Gra
ham, bearers of despatches from Gen.
Tavlor, and Capt. G. T. M. Davis, bear
er of despatches from Gen. Wool. On
the 19th in>t. it blew a gale oft*the Bar
zos. The schooner William Bryan and I
barque Robert Morris were caught in it,
'The former stove her bulwaiks and lost
her deck load of mules and small boats.
The Robert Morris also threw overboard
a part of her deck load of mules. Sever
;al schooners dragged their anchors off
the bar and put to sea; they had not re
turned when the McKm left. The
schooner John Wainwright, of New York,
was lost with all her cargo in the Bra
zos. The McKim experienced very
heavy weather on her lelurn voyage and
lost overboard Cltas. Muller,of Baltimore
of the Texas Bangers, and —Churchill,
one of Capt. May 's U. S. Dragoons, It
blowing a gale at the same time, and it
being dark and rainy, no a csistance what
ever could he given them— they both
perished.
On the 21st inst. seven companies of
artillery, in all 074 men, were despatched
from the Brazos with a good supply ot
jordnance and ordnance stores, in the
steamers Neptune and Sea, to Tampico.
“These troops,’ 9 says our correspondent,
“are intended to relieve th.e navy which
look and si ill holds possession of that
. place. This will give those galia’nl fel
lows an opportunity, which they much
desire, to go further and conquer more
They have not yet ha!f told their tale.”—
The entire force sent over to Tampico
was under Col. Gates of the artillery,
who, we presume, will take command of
lhat port.
We have been furnished with the fol■
Jowing narrative ot the proceedings of
Wool. Our last advices informed
f\s that Qeu.Taylor Itad sent a message to
|Gen. Wool requesting him to despatch a
portion of the forces under him to Mon
y %
>clova, and that before tlie message reach
ed the General, lie had determined to
jjnarch upon that point with his uholecom
,niand.
“Capt. G. T. M. Davis (aid to Gen.
reports that Gen. Wool look
peaceable possession of Monclova on the
,3(>lK October. The Governor and a mint
her ot the principal citizens harmed an es
,cort and met Gen. Wool about four miles
.from the city and welcomed him as a
friend. One of the best houses in the place
was offered to him for his head quarters
—which offer was accepted. Gen Wool s
army,.numbering 2909 men, was in ex
cellent health and spit its. 'J he country
$ t 1.^51*
through which it passed is described as
abounding in wheat, corn, beef, mutton,
and every necessary means of subsis
tence, which could he had at reasonable
prices, Capt. Davis reports that corn is
raised iu quantities and of a qualify sur
passing any thing he had before seen, and
that the climate is delightful and the
country generally very beautiful, fertile
and watered with numerous streams. —
Gen. -Wool rearched from the Presidio
dfl Rio Grande to Monclova. a distance of
two hundp d and four miles, in eleven
marching days, lie took along with him
forty day’s provisions for Ids columns,
and another train with an equal amount,
was a lew days in Ids rear. These were
die last supplies he expected to receive
from Port Lavacca. as he designed open
ing communications with On. Taylor
for receiving future supplies.”
News was received at Mo» clova on
the 2d irjsi,, that Col. Doniphan, of the
Missouri volunteers, who had been de
tached by Gen. Kearny, at Santa Fe, for
the duty, had taken the city of Chihuahua
with TOO men. He entered the (lice
without impediment—the town having
surrendering without a gun being fired,
as we always said would he the case.
Col. Riley, of the 3 1 Infantry, has hern
ordered to march with the whole of his
regiment, upon Victoria de Tamaulipas.
lie had left upon that service when our
informant left Camargo.
Upon the arrival of despatches from
the United States Government ordering
an end to he put to the armistice, Gen.
Taylor despatched Major Graham to Sal
tillo to confer with the Mexican camp and
inform them that each party was at liber
ty to act as it might think fit. Not an ofll
cer nor a soldier was to he seen al Sal
tillo. Maj. Graham had an interview
with the Governor and inti rmed him that
the armistice w as at an end, and request
ed him to despatch the intelligence to the
Mexican commander-in-chief at San Luis
Potosi. The Governor desired Major
Giaharnto proceed to San Luis and de
liver his message; hut that officer’s in
strnctions being peremptory he returned
to Monterey. When Maj. Graham left
Monterey on the 10th inst., Gen. Worth
was under orders to move against Saltil
-la. f!c waste have left the next day.—
Gen. Taylor intended to accompany him
with lhe 2d Regiment Dragoons, but
would return again to Monterey, leaving
Gen. Worth there. No resistance was
anticipated from the enemy.
Our letters continue to speak o' Santa
Anna’s preparations al San Luis Poiosi.
It was reported that ho had collected 30,-
000 men; but this was considered by
many an exaggeration. Gen. Worth’s
division vet occupied the city of Monterey,
hut was about leaving for Saltillo. Gen.
Twigg’s and Butler’s commands wore
in camp outside the town. We insert a
letter fiom one of our correspondents,
which contains valual 1 j information:
Camargo, Nv. 7, 18 46.
Geujlerneu —Military enthusiasm ran high
yesterday morning, in consequence of a ru
mor that the President had authorized a
movement from the army here towards Tam
pico, but ’ere nightfall the fire had dampen
ed down in consequence of our learning that
some of our people had “comedown in ships”
and performed that important, operation?. I
think there is no danger of a collapse, as we
can yet work off steam to advantage on the
expected march of Gen. Taylor on Saltillo;
the President having vetoed the armistice
and given Gen. T. authority to go ahead,
it is supposed we will without delay march
on ISaltillo.
A rumor (winch I do not vouch for, but
winch is not only possible but probable) says
that another revolution lias broken out in
Mexico. The Santa Anna party declared
him Dictator—a/iV/-Santa Anna (beaded by
Valencia) demurred, turned their arms
against tire Dictator, and drove him and his
party trout San Luts Poiosi; and that the
Dictator was falling back in the direction of
the city of Mexico. This was a very natu
ral route for him to take, were he driven
from his lines at San Luis, considering the
position of affairs iu this section.
The people here are talking strong of Ter
ril-ortal Government, and 1 think they are
more serious about it since Gen. Kearny s
proclamation has been known among them,
j cannot see the least objection to the course
lien K. has pursued- and the good sense of
the American people will sustain him --
L'loset politicians know nothing of these
people. Confidence and sympathy are thrown
a wav upon them. Not an Indian chief who
mams at large through his boundless plains
and bibs—without example to guide him.
Without laws to make him honest —that is
pot more sincere, in whom more confidence
ran be placed, than in Santa Anna, Atnpu
dia (U- Mejia. And opr .Government will see,
from the material she has got to work upo.n,
that site must change her conciliatory policy
for one more rigid, more conciliatory, f ilings
have changed since we came here, or else at
th it time were but little understood. The
people are not ready to fly into the arms of
our Government at tlie fire of the first gun, but
the reverse. The military aspirants are pre
vented by their peviple from making a peace
with the* United Stales. I do not believe
there is a single pulsation of their hearts,
unless from interest or fear, which is with us;
nor can any man whose views or opinions
are favorable to us, raise to power or retain
it long without a revolution.. Why, then,
sprinkle “pearls before swine.
The steamer Major Brown, which went up
the Rio Grande ou an exploring expedition,
has arrived al Loredo, from which Lieut.
Tildcn, 2d Infantry, in charge of the expe
dition, makes report. He reports favorably
generally of the depth of water fur boats
drawing four or live feet; but the channel,
in mativ places, crooked, in others filled with
Inucalouc rocks which “slick right straight
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY 3IORNING, DECE3IBER 5. 1846.
up,” (easily removed.) and frequent rapids
—all o( which the Brown passed over and
arrived safe at Loredo. Yours, &c., F.
The McKim left at Brazos the U. S. brig
Somers and schooner Arispe. loading for
Tampico. They would soon leave with one
oilier company of regulars, provisions and
munitions of war. Off Brazos Santiago dis
rharging, were the ships John Holland and
Atlantic, bark Robert Morris, brigs Architect,
Union and Millaudon, and schooners Wil
liam Bryan and Elizabeth. The iron steam
er De Rosset bad also arrived.
The following passengers came in the
M( Ki m ;
Majs. McLean and Graham, bearers of
despatches from Gen. Taylor;Capt. G. T. M.
Davis, bearer of despatches from Gen. Wool;
Maj. Carnes, U. S. A ; Col. McCook, U. S.
A.; Col. Cazenan, U. S. A.; Capt. J. M.
Scott, U. S. A ; t apis. Hughes, Mason,
Kell, Dillard, Tod, Porter, Kemp, of sciiooiiv
er J. Wainwright, J. McMann, Rodgers,
Breath, of steamboat Rainsvijle, Davis, Bell,
Bell, and Templeton, Lients. Cable, R. G.
Mitchell, and W. 11. Niles; 11 G. Hearth,
A. J. Hedrick, F. C. Humphreys. Hamilton,
VV. 11. Saunders, P A. Jones, Chas. Uhde,
Kennedy, Sherman, O’Reilly, O. Verger, J.
Dale, and 150 discharged and sitl; volun
teers.
The Malamoros Flag, announces that
on the llih in-t. the Tennessee cavalry,
numbering near 900 men and horses, un
der command of Col. Thomas, marched
through the streets of Malamoros from
their encampment on the river to a new
encampment four or five miles south of
that place ou the San Fernando road.—
Capt. Haynes’s company hud been tem
porarily detached from the regiment and
placed in quarters on the upper plaza of
the town.
The Flag informs ns that Gen. Taylor
has been compelled to throw into prison a
priest detected in preaching desertion to
the American troops. The Flag lias lit
tle mercy on him.
We take from the “Flag” the following
account of a smuggling fraud attempted
< n the RioGrande.
“We are gratified to learn that from
information given in our last, an extensive
fraud on the revenue of our Government
has been delected. It has been ascertained
that the freight landed from the steamer
EnfeiprUe "as consigned to Mr. Uhde,
the IVmssiiin Consul al this place, and
was brought fiom Havana in the Star, an
American schooner, which obtained a
permit from the coiiector at the Brazos to
land the goods on the Mexican side of the
RioGtande free ofduty. A portion of the
goods were accordingly sent up here, and
the steamer had returned for the bal
ance, when it was discovered that there
was an irregularity in the transaction.
Lieut. Chase, the quartermaster* at this
place, with his usual promptness and in
dependence, succeeded in ferreting out
rite matter, and all the goods tl al have
been found are strictly guarded and under
seal until the arrival of Mr. G. S. Cook,
the collector at Brazos, when a more
thorough investigation will lie made. 'The
cargo is valued at $200,000.”
LATEST FRO3I GEN. KEARNY.
Bv the way ofSt. Louis we have later
intelligence from Santa Fe and Gen.
Kearny’s expedition to California. Capt.
Fitzpatrick arrived at St. Louis on the
15th inst., with important despatches
from the Pacific. He furnished the fol
lowing infomation to the St. Louis Union.
O ' .
We have slightly abbreviated bis report,
a portion of the intelligence front the
Pacific having been anticipated:
When Gen. Kearny was almjt ITS
miles south of Santa Fe,on the RioGrande,
near the place whence he would take a
western direction for California, he met
a company of sixteen persons, who had
been sent forward bv Com. Stockton with
despatches toy the Government, aDo for
Gen. K. From them it was learned that
the American Hag was flying over every
town in Upper and Louder California.
The Mexican Governor and forces Lad
been driven out, and were pursued as far
as the head of the Gulf ofCalifornia. They
succeeded in escaping across the Colo
rado.
The route to California which Gen.
K. has selected is very difficult. The
distance to the nearest California settle
ment is 650 miles. There is great scar
city of water and forageon th.e road. The
company that brought in the despatches,
was on the road thiily-one clays. It look
with it fifty mules, in good condition for
the trip, but all save eighteen Itad been
lost, from scarcity of wafer and grass. In
consequence of the information brought
to Gen. Kearny, he ordered hack to Santa
Fe all of the dragoons except one hundred,
and availing himself of the services of the
company that had just traversed the route,
lie gave to Capt. Fitzpatrick the Gov.
eminent despatches, with directions to
proceed to Washington without delay.
Oapts. Turner, Johnson and Moore,
[dents. Hammand and Love, Lieut. Emo
ry, of the Topographical Corps, M*j.
Swords, Quartermaster, and Dr, Griffin,
Surgeon, accompany Gen. K. loCalilor
nia.
Capt. Fitzpatrick stopped at Santa Fe
onlv one day. The troops there were in
good health. Although some apprehen.
dons had been fell about provisions. Capt-
F. says there will be an ample supply, as
he met provision trains along the entire
route. All of the volunteers, except the
detachments under Maj. Gilpin, near
Taos, and that under Lieut. Col. Jackson,
were stationed at San’a Fe. There is a
general look of discipline, and cot.fusion
lias prevailed ever since Gen. K. left.
Lieut. C d. Jackson had met ihe Navajoes
and Apaches, hut they refused to make
a treaty. He sent hack to Santa Fe for
sufficient reinforcements to enable him to
make a viceroys campaign against tiio>e
hostile tribes. No news had been re
ceived from Chihuahua. Col. Doniphan
was to proceed to that place to join Gen.
Wool. Col. Price was to leave Santa Fe
on the ITih ofOctqher tor California.
He would take with him oulv 150 men,
and select a different route from that
taken by Gen. Kearney. Capl Hudson
had been ordered to disband the California
Rangers, and resume the command of his
former company. 'Pile Mormons were
to leave Santa Fe on the 17:h, under com
mand of Col. Cooke, and would follow
Gen. K. by the southern route. There
were more troops at Santa Fe than were
I needed, and some difficulty was experi
enced in disposing of them for the winter.
On his way in, Capt, Fitzpatrick met
Col. Thompson, on the Cimarone, 300
miles from Santa Fe. He had recovered
most of his horses, and would proceed on
his route without delay. His horses had
pot been stolen, as previously reported,
* but lost in a stampede. The grass along
the Santa Fe trace had been entirely con
sumed; hut there had been an immense
loss ofcattleon the route.
The new govei iiment had hardly com
rnonced operations when Capi. F. left, on
the 14th. The inhabitants were said to
he distant ami reserved, evincing less
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friendship than was anticipated.
[From the Baltimore Si;a, Nov. 30. J
I LOSS or THE STEAMER ate antic?
FORTY LIVES LOST.
A brief account of this accident on the
Sound, on Thursday evening last, was
received in this city, on Saturday after
noon, hut through some accident of the
telegraphic account, the names of the
saved were understood to he those of the
lost. Mr. Marsh, of Haverhill, Mass.,
has furnished the following account of the
catastrophe:
The passengers left Boston at half past
five o’clock on Wednesday afternoon.—
'[’hey proceeded over the Worcester and
Norwich roads, and reached AllyiPs
Point at half past eleven on that night.—
There they went on hoard the Atlantic.
She left for New York between 12 and 1
o’clock on Thursday morning.
There were between seventy and eigh
- r
ly persons on board in all, including pas
sengers, officers, crew and servants.
The Atlantic got well under way, and
was running along finely, when the steam
chest exploded, and almost at the same
moment the wind shifted from the north
, west, and blew almost a perfect hurri
cane.
The steamer was thrown into the midst
of darkness and confusion, and the air
FesQunded with the cries of the scalded.
It was a frightful scene to behold. Capt.
Dustan instantly called all hands to the
fore deck, and ordered them to heave over
the anchors, hut it was found almost im
possible for a man to stand on deck, in
consequence of the violence of the gale,
the sea continually making a breach over
her hows. Owing to this, it look nearly
an hour to get out thelhree anchors.
The steamer worked heavily, {dung
ing her bows at every lurch, and draging
her anchors. Between the time of an
choring and daylight, it is thought that
she dragged about 11 miles.
The fires w.e/e all put out at daylight
on Thursday, and from that time to the
period of going ashore, the passengers
and crew suffered from the intense cold.
1 The only moans of keeping warm was to
| wrap themselves in blankets, and walk
briskly around the steamer.
All, at this lime, began to look to their
own personal safety. All put on the 1 ifL
preservers that the ship was so plentifully
supplied with, and prepared themselves
for any emergency. The doors, shut
ters, settees, &c., were detached and cut
aw ay, for rafts to drift ashore upon, when
ever she should strike.
The gale increasing in violence, Capt.
Dustan, who preserved his self possession
throughout the perilous lime, ordered
about forty tons of coal to be thrown
i overboard, in order to lighten the vessel.
b ■
About noon on Tnursday, the smoke
pipes, which were large and heavy, were
ordered to he thrown overboard. This
was done, the captain assisting, and the
steamer was eased for a short time.—
There was offered to the force of the
I wind.
The steamer continued to drift, how
| ever, and everything looked terrible and
hopeless:
The danger increased so rapidly that
between two and three o’clock Captain
Dustan ordered the decks to be cleared of
all merchandise, of every thing that was
7 y «"5
in the way. Cases of boots, shoes, bar
rels of flour, stoves, &c. &c., including
| one package, said to contain $7,000 worth
of plate, w ere thrown overboard. There
| were six to eight thousand dollars’ worth
of lace on board, belonging to one of the
passengers, who had previously said he
would give the whole to any one who
wmuld put him safely ashore. This lace
was afterwards seen strewn along the
beach.
All these efforts, however, to save the
steamci, were unavailing. No person
‘ worked harder than Captain Dustan, and
his passengers and crew. After tldse |
repeated and united efforts had failed, all .
l*o pesos safety we<*eover, and ail feii de
sirens and anxious that the steamer should j
strike the beach. It was a frightful sight,
but the feelings of tho>e on board had
been wrought to such a pitch, that re-ac
tion came over them, and they were re
signed to their fate.
About midnight she parted one of her
cables, there being four out, one attached
to thirty hundred weight of furnace bars,
and the others to anchors. After this the
gale continued to increase and blew a
perfect hurricane.
She was driven still nearer the shore,
but passed a point that ail expected she
would strike upon. Site then drifted about
eleven miles more, making in all twentv. ,
two miles, which occupied about forty- !
eight hours, or terrible uncertainty and 1
suffering. She then struck, stem first, on
a ledge of rocks on Fisher’s Island. A
tremendous sea threw her up to the very
lop of the ledge. This was the crisis in
the disaster. In five minutes after she
struck she was in pieces*
In these five minutes at least one-half
of those on board {he Atlantic were taken
from time into eternity. The screams, I
the crash, tlie roar of the ?ea, were dread- j
ful.
There were six females, four children
and two infants among tlie passengers.—
Ail tlie females were drowned or crushed
to death. Only one of the children was
saved, and he was the only one of the
family of which he was a member. His I
father, mother, married sister, and a
younger sister, and two young brothers, i
were on board. The'poor little orphan
thus saved, and thus thrown alone upon
the world, is onlv twelve years of age.—
• - r
The two infants were drowned, frozen, or
crushed to neath.
All litis occurred at half-past four o’- i
clock on Friday morning.
When the Atlantic struck, Air. Marsh
was sitting in the gangway; his first im
pression was that a heavy sea had struck \
the steamer. Jn a moment after, how- !
ever, the sea stove in Ihe side of-the ves
sel at his back, and swept him along and
dashed hint against the sound side of the 1
steamer, Before he could recover, an
other tremendous sea threw him against j
the upper side ot the vessel. Thence he
was thrown in amongst the tilings on deck
;r» _ o
and considerably bruised.
After he was thrown up the third time,
he ‘‘•ncceedt d in catching hold of the sky
light frame, and there remained for a few
moments, and the’only person near him
to be seen or hea r d, was the small boy
who was saved. He was on the top ofthe
ledge among the wreck. NJ r. Marsh here
discovered that he was made fast by an
iron hook, on a bar of iron, which had be
come entangled in one ot his life preserv
ers; after great exertions he made out to
throw one of 4he straps over his head, |
which drew the other still tighter. He i
then thought that all was over with him; i
hut he succeeded in drawing that off. He
then found that the other pair of preserv
ers, which he had on, were entangled
with those he had thrown off To'extri
cale himself from this difficulty, he lay
down, and dtew all off over his feel, and
threw them away.
During tliis lime the sea w’as breaking ■
up the steamer, and dashing the pieces of
wreck about, at one time, against Mr.
Marsh, and at another crushing either a
poor passenger or an unfortunate sailor to
deal h.
After Mr. Marsh, had thrown away
his life preservers he saw a gleam us light,
front the upper side of the vessel. The
Atlantic was then lying on her beam
ends, and her decks covered with ice.—
By some means he made his escape
through the side of the vessel through
which this gleam of light came. Before
he reached that point, however, lie saw a
human being standing near the aperture.
After reaching to within six feet of the
outside, he called to the person whom he
saw, and w ho proved to be the little hoy,
to pass him a piece of board, or something
else, to enable him to gel over the ice.—
The boy thought .that Mr. M. told him to
leave the place. This induced the boy i
to leave, and Mr. Marsh crept out over
what he supposed to be a dead body, it
was 100 claik to tell with certainty.— j
Then he took hold of a parr ofthe wreck
on the side ot the ladies’ saloon, and
walked on the edge of the vessel. On i
looking up, he saw the mast, with several
pieces of limber or spars attached swing
ing to and fro.
Al this moment Mr, Marsh was washed
back into the sea. Then he found it ne- I
cessarylo swim as rapidly as his bruised j
limbs would permit him through the swell
of the sea, ice and broken parts of the
vessel, to avoid the falling mast, and es
caped by a few feet only. He made for j
tlie shore as quickly as possible, which he |
finally readied in safety, after being i
driven back several times.
After Mr. Marsh turned toward the
shore he heard someone cry “Oh ! what
shall I do? I shan’t get ashore!” Mr.
M. encouraged him to strike out tit rough
the surf, and he had the pleasure, in the
midst of his (tain, to see the little fellow |
land on the beach.
As Mr. M. was thrown up for the last
time he caught hold of a small sharp rock |
and held on till the sea left him. Then j
tic crept on his hands and knees from the
beach over rocks till he readied a 1
C i
rcnk, which sheltered him from the wind.
It‘was very dark and intensely cold at
this tiaie.
Shortly after this, Mr. M. heard a
speak, and inquire “who is there?” Mr.
M. made an exertion to speak, and pro
babl v made some sort of a noise, for the
man told him “to hold on to his dress,” tr*
oe led to his house, P mding himself very
weak and cold, he could not walk with
out tailing. Just then two other
came up and conveyed Mr. Marsh to the
house. I his was about five o’clock iu
the morning, and from that time to aboiß
8 o clock Mr, M. was insensible.
THE LATE STEAMBOAT DISASTER.
We find in the N. Y. Herald of Sunday
some flit her particulars respecting the late
inelancoly accident to the steamer Atlantic,
in Long Island Sound.
ihe total number of bodies recovered, at
the last accounts from the wreck, was
twenty-nine. It is sincerely hoped that
these embrace all that perished.
J tie Atlantic was a new boat, and cpst
about -$ 140.000. {She was insured in New'
\ ork tor §555.000, though hall the amount,
being a Hre policy, will not be recovered.
A Mr. Partridge had in his company a
Miss Jordan. All his exertions to save tier
were fruitless, in the last of which he nearly
lost his own life. He escaped to the shore
by swimming, having first divested himself
ot his clothes, with the exception of his shirt
and pantaloons. The bud)’ of Miss Jordan
was recovered, and has been conveyed to
boston under the care of Mr. Partridge.
The Boston Advertiser gives a listof many
who bought tickets in Boston lor passage to IV.
York, it says:—JSo tar as we can learn,
only 30 passengers (20 first class and 10 se
cond class) bought tickets in Boston for the
passage to New York by the Atlantic, on
Wednesday afternoon, and their names am
given below, viz:
Messrs. Cassady, Cullamore, Hirsh, Arm
strong, Booth. {Symrnes, and Captain Hapua,
bought tickets of Adams &• Co., in JState-st.
Mr. Kimball (firm of iSpofford, Tifeston &,
Co., New York), Mr. Baldwin (Cincinnati,
Ohio.) Mr. Houghton, Mr. Solar, lady and
child (names unknown.) bought tickets of
Mr. Brooks, in Elm-street.
Two Messrs. Atwood, Messrs. Baldwin,
Hasler, Maynard, Giddings, Burbank, Par
tridge and lady, Weston, Orr, Leveret, Bur
beck, Van Wert (of Birmingham, England,)
Cunningham, and Capt. Cuilmn,.with the
following deck passengers:—Messrs. Wilsofi,
Peterson, Walton and family of six (En
glish), Madden, bought tickets at the railroad
station.
Laier. —The New York correspondent of
the Philadelphia IT. S. Gazette,writing under
dale of Sunday afternoon, says that the num
ber of bodies found was thirty-five.
The Dr. Hasslin mentioned as one of thosp
lost, is G. A. Hasslin, Surgeon, U. S. Navy.
He had just returned from The Gulf, anti was
on his way to Brunswick, New Jersey.
Information reached New York on Sun
day afternoon that Lleiit. Allan 11,,
ot the 4r lt infantry, U. S. Army, is .among
those that perished.
Messps. Adams’ Conductor placed their
valise containing a large amount of money
in a barrel, w hich washed ashore about q
miles from the scene of the disaster.
Among the passengers lost by the lato
catastrophe to the steamer Atlantic in Long
Island Sound was the Kev. Dr. Armstrong.
The N. Y. Commercial says—
The Christian public, especially that por
tion of it connected with the Am. Board of
Commissioners for Foreign Missions,-will bo
deeply grieved to learn that the Rev. Dr.
Armstrong, one of the Secretaries of that
Board, >vas among the lost of the Atlantic.
He performed his iast service for the benefit
of ins fellow' men on Thursday, while the
Atlantic lay at anchor. He conducted the
thanksgiving exercises, and delivered an ap
propriate address, recapitulating the reasons
wdiich ought to fill llie' bosoms of the pas
sengers w ith thanksgiving, and among the
rest, no doubt the supposed fact that they
had been saved from the dangers which
threatened them while the noble boat was
drifting and brought to a safe anchorage.
[LTRev. George F. Pierce of the Georgia
Conference has declined accepting the ap
pointments of Vice President and Professor
in Transylvania University (Lexington, Ky.)
tendered him by the late General Conference
of the Methodist E. Church, South. Dr.
Pierce, after maturely weighing the subject,
believes tiiat the claims of the itinerant- min
istry are paramount.— Columbus Enquirer,
Dec. I. •.
O’At the National Circus, on Saturday
afternoon, Mr. Dale, the unrivalled American
van Iter, threw seventy consecutive soinetscV.
a feat never accomplished before. In the
evening he threw the same number, making
the astonishing number of one hundred ami
forty somersets ill one day.— Philadelphia
Chran.
Dram Columbia. —The communication of
our correspondent in Columbia, failed to
reach ns in lime (or publication this week.—
'Phe only hems of interest to our readers
w’hich we derive from a private letter are,
that Col. Elnnore has declined serving lh.o
Stale as U. S. Senator, and that Judge But
ler will undoubtedly be elected to the place of
Gen. McDuffie.
Mr. Wardlavv, of this District, and Mr.
Dessnnssure are thought to be the most pro
minent candidates for the vacant Chancellor
ship.
The following gentlemen have been elect
ed Commissioners in Equity for their respec
tive Districts.viz: Georgetown. J. W. Coach
man; Abbeville, H. A. Jones; Lexington, 1L
A. Meetze; Chester, James H. Hemphill;
Williamsburg, J. Coleman; Richland, E, J.
Arthur. —Hamburg Journal.
silv i:u p l id .
• SIFUS valuable article restore Plated Ware to
H its former brilliancy aridWemlour, no matter
how much the article may be defaced or tarnished;
it will make an old pair of Castors or Candlestick*
look as new as when from the hands of the maker
ft is easily applied, is very cheap and will last a*
long as the real plating. For sale hv.
J. E. MARSHALL.
May 20 Fir.-t dour below Mechanics’ Bank