Star.
London, England, 1830-06-02 00:00:00

ANOTHER STEAM-BOAT EXPLOSION.

From the New York Journal of May 7.
We regret to record another of those distressing casual-
ties resulting from the effects of steam. A letter dated
Pittsburgh, April 30, says—
_

" The steam-boat Rome has just arrived, and brings the du'
tressing news of the steam. boat Caledonia having burst a boiler
near the mouth of the Chio, about the 22d of April, on her passage
from New Orleans to Louisville. Two of the crew_were killed, and
twelve of the passengers jumped overboard and were drowned. No
further particulars. The boat is heavily insured at Cincinnati."

From the Philadelphia Coffee-house books another
letter is copied, dated New Madrid, April 30, and ad-
dressed to the owners :
" I have the melancholy duty," says the writer, " to let you
know that on the 11th inst. the steam boiler of the aledonia burst,
killing and wounding about lb of the passengers and seven of the
new. Seven or eight more were blown overboard and lost. Some
of the wounded will recover, although badly scalded. The boiler
burst on the side, while the boat was under way, about two hours
after having wooded. The iron must have been defective, u it
had been but one year in service. We had a heavy freight, with
400 deck and 60 cabin passengers, which, with the crew, amounted
to nearly 500 souls. The hull of the boat is uninjured. We are
now in tow of the Paul Jones, and you may expect us at Louisville
In a few days."
The editor of the Philadelphia Gazette has conversed with a
gentleman who was on board when *the accident occurred. The
terror and confusion of the moment,• he says, it is impossible to
describe.

Some were wounded, and others dead. Those that were unin-
jured were endeavouring to save themselves and their property ; and
each, in endeavouring to accomplish his object, increased the
difficulty and danger of escaping from the boat. A number of
trunks were hastily thrown from the boat towards the shore. Some
of these fell Into the water. Our informant saw one unfortunate
passenger, who bad jumped overboard, struck on the head by a
trunk, and he thinks others perished in the like manner.
Among the passengers who were injured was a gentleman who
had been injured by the explosion on board the Mks Macgregor.
He had just recovered from his wounds, when he experienced this
second disaster on board the Caledonia.

The gentleman with whom we have conversed thinks the boiler
defective, but is of opinion that the immediate cause of the accident
was the boat's being thrown out of trim, by the passengers press-
ing on one side to view the scenery. in this way he thinks the
water was thrown on one side of the boiler, •snd the other side ex.
posed to the direct action of the fire.
(From the 2d Edition of the New York Journal.)

THE LATE EXPLOBION.—The Cincinnati Adver-
tiser of April 27, gives the following particulars relative
to the explosion on board the steam-boat Caledonia,
when about nine miles below New Madrid, on the Mis-
sissippi :
Nine were killed, seven badly wounded, and eight
slightly, as follows :

killed—Philip Orms, John Sheridin, Jonas Chamberlain, deck
passengers; Joseph Russell, engineer; John Oreenup, Thomas,
crew ; Adam Taylor, coloured fireman ; Anthony Hawkins,steward.
Badly melded—Noel Dosney, Asa Levitt, Wm. Cheeseman,
Samuel Murphy, Thomas Peel, James Hamilton, and Frank.
Slighgly welded.--J. D. Hughes, H. Carlisle, C. Moon, black
man; J. L. Dickson, Francis Worley, Pelletin Marshall, Manley
Vickery, Esq.
The explosion took place while the boat was and had been under
way for several hours. The dumage, other than the loss of the
boiler, done the boat is but trifling.
The passengers on beard the steamboat Caledonia, actuated by
a sense of justice, state, that the diuresis' accident which has just
occurred, can in no way be imputed to negligence, or any lack of
care whatever, in the pilot°, Capt. Russel, whose feeling behaviour
on the occasion is worthy of their warmest commendation. It is
further their belief, that the explosion is ascribable to an original
but unknown defectiveness in one of the boilers.

A most serious accident, by which a man lost his life,
occurred in the parish of Stanford Rivers, on Friday last.
William Freshwater, a poor and industrious man, was
employed in whimming timber, and had fixed the stick
to the axle, or bed of the whim, and drawing down the pole
in order to put on the nose chain,when the horses we; e im-
prudently released whilst the poor fellow was lying across
the pole with intent to keep it down : the consequence
WAS, that immediately the horses were off, the pole flew
back, and threw the man a considerable height, when,
falling on a stub, one of his thighs was broken ; and the
bruises he received internally caused his death about
mid-day on Saturday. He has left a wife and nine
children to deplore his fate.—Essex Herald.
NEW SECT.—About a twelvemonth ago a volume was
published, entitled Peace in Believing, being the
Letters and Memoirs of Isabella Campbell, a young
person who died of consumption. This volume acquired
great popularity. About the period of the publication,
a brother and sister of the deceased were taken ill of
the complaint of which she died. The similarity of the
circumstances excited a considerable interest. Every word
the apparently dying sister spoke was listened to
as inspiration, and she spoke with fervour and fluency
truly wonderful. Miss CAMPLELL was of the sect who
lay claim to direct inspiration, and probably regarded
what she poured forth to her admiring auditors with
such facility, as in reality the outpouring of the spirit.
Contrary to all expectation, she some months ago
began to recover, and determined to devote her life to
the conversion of the heathen. It was obviously ne-
cessary to the success of her work that she should
understand the heathen language. The difficulty was
overcome by a new miracle, and MART CAMPBELL re-
ceived the gift of tongues, in which she became quite as
fluent as in her native speech. It is true, no one
who has yet listened to the voice of her inspiration
can understand one word that she utters when she quits
her mother tongue ; but their faith is nut shaken is the
reality of the miracle. The fame of MARY CAMPBELL'S
inspiration, and the divine influence, was felt by others of
the faithful. The shape it in general took was the mi-
raculous cure of diseases. An inspired brother ap-
proached the bed of his sister, who had been confined to
it a long time, and commur.ded her, in tle
the LORD Jesus,to rise and walk. 11, c faith was pc, itt :
she arose and walked about her rocs, and skirt better tin:
night than she bad done a long time before, and Lab
continued well ever since, though thin and emaci-
ated. Other similar miracles have been performed,
and some have failed for want of faith. Miss Mary
Campbell's miraculous tongues, understood by no one,
can be accounted for ; but the real miracle is, that men
of education--that members of the Scottish bar, and
ministers of the Scottish church, should be found among
the believers. Their number exceeds 2,000, and it is
still increasing.-.[Abridged from an Edinburgh paper.)